Mystery Train, 1989
Mystery Train
Shot “in bright, primary colors, [...] Mystery Train is thoroughly satisfying, a delight [...]. The setting is Memphis, and the connecting link among three separate, slightly overlapping stories is a sleazy hotel and the sound of a gunshot. One story is about a terribly hip Japanese teenage couple who have come to Memphis to worship at the Elvis Presley shrine at Graceland and at Sun Studios, where their idols recorded their immortal rock-and-roll and blues. The second is about a pretty, youngish Italian widow who is forced to spend a night in Memphis while accompanying her husband's corpse back to Rome. The third, which brings everything together, involves a drunk young English working-class fellow, his mild-mannered brother-in-law (a Memphis barber) and their hip black pal who tries to keep them out of trouble, unsuccessfully. The curious thing about this Jarmusch film is that although he is not considered to be strong on plots, the narrative line of Mystery Train is both brilliantly funny and subtle [...]. He also has a knack for the oddball detail [...]: "When he died, Elvis Presley would have weighed 648 pounds on Jupiter." -- Vincent Canby, The New York Times
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Runtime: 110
Director: Jim Jarmush Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh |
Mystery Train, 1989
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Mystery Train
Shot “in bright, primary colors, [...] Mystery Train is thoroughly satisfying, a delight [...]. The setting is Memphis, and the connecting link among three separate, slightly overlapping stories is a sleazy hotel and the sound of a gunshot. One story is about a terribly hip Japanese teenage couple who have come to Memphis to worship at the Elvis Presley shrine at Graceland and at Sun Studios, where their idols recorded their immortal rock-and-roll and blues. The second is about a pretty, youngish Italian widow who is forced to spend a night in Memphis while accompanying her husband's corpse back to Rome. The third, which brings everything together, involves a drunk young English working-class fellow, his mild-mannered brother-in-law (a Memphis barber) and their hip black pal who tries to keep them out of trouble, unsuccessfully. The curious thing about this Jarmusch film is that although he is not considered to be strong on plots, the narrative line of Mystery Train is both brilliantly funny and subtle [...]. He also has a knack for the oddball detail [...]: "When he died, Elvis Presley would have weighed 648 pounds on Jupiter." -- Vincent Canby, The New York Times