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DEAD MAN
Von Jim Jarmusch (US, J, D 1995, 121’)

A dark, bitter commentary on modern American life cloaked in the form of a surrealist western, Jim Jarmusch’S DEAD MAN stars Johnny Depp as William Blake, a newly-orphaned accountant who leaves his home in Cleveland to accept a job in the frontier town of Machine. Upon his arrival, Blake is told by the factory owner Dickinson (Robert Mitchum) that the job has already been filled. Dejectedly, he enters a nearby tavern, ultimately spending the night with a former prostitute. A violent altercation with the woman’s lover (Gabriel Byrne), also Dickinson’s son, leaves Blake a murderer as well as mortally wounded.