Night on Earth, 1991
Mystery Train
"In the lyrically funny and stunningly visualized Night on Earth, Jarmusch takes us on five taxi rides in five cities – Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki – over the course of a single winter night. The five stories – or puzzle pieces – are linked only by synchronicity and the scrutiny of Jarmusch, who monitors the interaction of drivers and passengers from the alien, but never hostile, perspective of a visitor from another planet…Jarmusch is a true visionary; he knows his films can't bring order to the ravishing chaos around him, but he can't resist the fun of trying. In this compassionate comedy of missed connections, he makes us see the ordinary in fresh and pertinent ways. But the flickers of humanity in those taxis are soon dulled by barriers of time, sex, race, language and money. They are flickers in a vast emotional void [...]. Jarmusch offers a hip, urban, brooding take on a pop culture closed off to feeling." -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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Runtime: 110
Director: Jim Jarmusch Cast: Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Lisanne Falk |
Night on Earth, 1991
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Mystery Train
"In the lyrically funny and stunningly visualized Night on Earth, Jarmusch takes us on five taxi rides in five cities – Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki – over the course of a single winter night. The five stories – or puzzle pieces – are linked only by synchronicity and the scrutiny of Jarmusch, who monitors the interaction of drivers and passengers from the alien, but never hostile, perspective of a visitor from another planet…Jarmusch is a true visionary; he knows his films can't bring order to the ravishing chaos around him, but he can't resist the fun of trying. In this compassionate comedy of missed connections, he makes us see the ordinary in fresh and pertinent ways. But the flickers of humanity in those taxis are soon dulled by barriers of time, sex, race, language and money. They are flickers in a vast emotional void [...]. Jarmusch offers a hip, urban, brooding take on a pop culture closed off to feeling." -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone