Dead Souls + Alex Cox Q&A
About the event
On Sunday 8th November, we will be joined by Director Alex Cox for a Live Post-Film Q&A For his directorial swan song, Alex Cox (Repo Man, Straight to Hell) stars in this frontier fable of American Greed, playing the mysterious drifter Strindler as he scours the West for the names of dead Mexican labourers. In this loose adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, Strindler - or is it Swindler? - raises eyebrows when he offers to pay a pretty penny to add to his list of names. Wandering affably from saloon to ranch, Strindler exercises the old adage that money talks - but sometimes too loudly. Between the town drunk, hot-headed cowherds and local outlaws, Strindler soon finds himself tangled up in his own tall tales. Pistol duels and crooked officials abound, and Spaghetti Western legend Gianni Garko (If You Meet Sartana Pray For Your Death) claims a co-writer credit. But…
