IR Film Review: DEAD SOULS [Kino Lorber]

Alex Cox has always done things his way and with what is marketed as his final film: “Dead Souls” is an interesting interplay on the notion of reality and the con. Made on a shoestring in the middle of Spain, it pays tribute to the spaghetti westerns but with a character called Strindler who wanders in like a bad tax accountant and stirs up trouble, the play is about what we believe. Cox himself plays the man with an earnestness but also a mysteriousness that never really comes to bear but also delivers in many ways.