Marcin Pieńkowski: Cannes in a haze of the absurd

The Cannes festival gets under way in a haze of the absurd. Jim Jarmusch has made an apocalyptic comedy about zombies. The Dead Don’t Die is hilarious slow cinema, a genre film that is at the same time the manifesto of a director who has evidently had enough of the modern consumerist lifestyle. Laughter mixes with a bitter message. The brilliant Deerskin Quentin Dupieux gives a fantastic performance as a guy who buys a jacket with a fringe and dreams of destroying all the jackets in the world for it. A wonderful film that is absurd, laconic, slow and self-referential. 

Marcin Pieńkowski, artistic director of the New Horizons International Film Festival