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Dead Man
8.3
/10
16,579 Ratings

Synopsis

19th century America. Accountant William Blake has hardly arrived in the godforsaken frontier town of Machine before he’s caught in the middle of a deadly lovers’ quarrel. Wounded and on the run, Blake finds a friend in the outcast Nobody, who guides him on a spiritual journey.

Our take

King-of-cool Jim Jarmusch showed up to Cannes in 1995 with possibly his best film. This self-described “psychedelic western” rebuilds the genre as a ragged, comic, uniquely American trip, with help from an ensemble cast including Johnny Depp and Iggy Pop, and scored to a mystic jam by Neil Young.