Johnny Depp

Gary Farmer

Crispin Glover

Lance Henriksen

Michael Wincott

Eugene Byrd

John Hurt

Robert Mitchum

Iggy Pop

Gabriel Byrne

Jared Harris

Mili Avital

Jimmie Ray Weeks

Mark Bringelson

John North

Alfred Molina

Billy Bob Thornton

Michelle Thrush

Steve Buscemi

Gibby Haynes

Richard Boes

Jim Jarmusch

Demetra J. MacBride

Neil Young

Robby Müller

Jay Rabinowitz

Ellen Lewis

Laura Rosenthal

Bob Ziembicki

Ted Berner

Dayna Lee

Marit Allen

Robert Hein

Magdaline Volaitis

Lou Carlucci

Randall Balsmeyer

Jon Farhat

Al Jones

Erik Stabenau

Richard Alonzo

Clare M. Corsick

David Dupuis

Scott W. Farley

Tom Irvin

Todd Kleitsch

Leon Laderach

Neal Martz

Joel Harlow

Christopher Allen Nelson

Beth DePatie

Jude Gorjanc

Constance L. Hoy

Todd Pfeiffer

Arthur Allyn

Mark Balda

Elizabeth A. Beckman

Michael Bennett

Michael Blair

Mark Borg

Karen M. Clark

Edie Douglass

George A. Fleming

John A. Foote

Tony Gibson

Bill Holmquist

Kevin Hughes

Terry Kempf

Richard Lambert

Suzanne Lapick

Walt Mikolwski

Craig Anthony Muzio

Jack Orlando

John Pattison

Kenneth Stellar

James Stephenson

Kenneth Sylvester

Mae Brunken

Shari Hilliard

Brick Mason

Stephen M. Vernarelli

Coll Anderson

Kam Chan

Héctor Cordero

Marko Costanzo

Keith Culbertson

Dan Evans Farkas

Mark Goodermote

Hextro

Frank Kern

Julie Lindner

Kimberly R. McCord-Wilson

Sylvia Menno

Bruce Pross

Stacey Tanner

Mark DeSimone

John C. Carlucci

Joe Fordham

Mark Habegger

Nori Honda

Joe Garert

Anne Putnam Kolbe

Daniel Leung

Steven T Puri

Ken Smith

Mimi Abers

Marc Rubone

Tori Bridges

James Brisbin

Eric Budlong

Kenny Davis

Robert K. Feldmann

Lisa K. Ferguson

Kirk R. Gardner

Bob Gorelick

Todd Heater

Jon Hokanson

Chris Lombardi

David Luckenbach

Jeff Mart

Drama

Fantasy

Western

Dead Man

Pandora Film

Newmarket Capital Group

12-Gauge Productions

United States of America

Japan

Germany

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A somewhat surrealist film, which has value, but which is not for everyone's taste.**

This film is a little disconcerting. It is an uncompromising Western, frontal, very raw and sometimes difficult to understand. It all starts with William Blake, an accountant from the East Coast, taking a train to a remote place in the West, to accept a job in the company of an unscrupulous industrialist. It turns out that the vacancy was filled by someone else: at the end of the day, unmotivated, he goes to bed with a prostitute and ends up killing a man who tried to kill her out of jealousy. This man was the son of the factory owner, who sends henchmen after Blake, who is unaware of this and runs away, ending up in the company of a strange Indian named Nobody.

The film has great artistic note. It has excellent black and white cinematography, makes intelligent use of light, shadow, angles and filming framing. The sets and costumes are very good: they are not particularly rigorous from a historical point of view, the film was not concerned with being strictly framed in time and space, so that aesthetics prevails over the realism of the recreation. However, the aesthetic value is remarkable, and it gives us a raw, rough and dirty vision of the West. Jim Jarmusch ensures effective management that makes the most of what's in its hands. There are a good number of visual effects and the soundtrack, based on the electric guitar, is atmospheric and somehow fits into the film effectively, even if it is never one of the soundtracks that we will want to have on CD.

The film has a series of good actors, of which Johnny Depp stands out in an almost natural way. He was still young here, but he already showed his taste for playing the most bizarre characters. However, and perhaps because of the bizarre nature of the film itself, it is not one of the actor's greatest works. Iggy Pop, Robert Mitchum and Crispen Glover are also here, and they do an interesting and sincere job, in rough, tough characters, with few lines and a lot of presence and impact.

The big problem with the film – and it really is a big one – is that it is so apparently complex and almost surreal. At various times it is suggested that the character played by Depp is a man who is already dead, and there is almost a synesthesia between the accountant and his British namesake, who was an artist and poet and who would be, at the time of the events of the film, really dead! It's very strange, and such strangeness makes this not a film for everyone's taste.