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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Jim Jarmusch
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Actors:
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Gena Rowlands,
Rosie Perez,
Lisanne Falk,
Richard Boes,
Emile Abossolo M'bo,
Alan Randolph Scott,
Anthony Portillo,
Pascal N'Zonzi,
Stéphane Boucher,
Noel Kaufmann,
Winona Ryder,
Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Giancarlo Esposito,
Isaach De Bankolé,
Béatrice Dalle
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Duration:
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129 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)88.5
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Plot Summary:
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Jim Jarmusch's deadpan comedy-of-the-continuously is a collection of five vignettes irresistible place in the enclosed measure out of a taxi-cub oppress, each occurring simultaneously in five unlike cities and five different time zones -- Los Angeles, New York Big apple, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. The Los Angeles episode takes place at eventide, as high-powered casting spokesman Victoria (Gena Rowlands) gets a control from L.A. International Airport with tomboy driver Corky (Winona Ryder), who would measure go on driving her Obsolete horse-drawn hackney than remind one of up Victoria's tende... r to make her a superstar. In New York City, novice East German cabbie Helmut Grokenberger (Armin Mueller-Stahl) has difficulty working the foot pedals to his menial, and his passenger, YoYo (Giancarlo Esposito), ends up driving himself to Brooklyn, picking up the shrill-voiced Angela (Rosie Perez) along the way. In Paris, an African cab driver (Isaach De Bankol?) ejects a collection of drunken African diplomats from his taxi-cub and picks up a beautiful but bilious insensible to maid (B?atrice Dalle). In Rome, cab driver Gino (Roberto Benigni) engages in a dedicated monologue confessing his past genital exploits to his passenger, a priest who is dying of a crux attack in the in arrears seat. The layer winds down in the last melancholy vignette, taking OK in Helsinki, as cab driver Mika (Matti Pellonp??) picks up three inebriated workmen who regale him with untiringly-fate stories. But Mika has a much harsher story of his own to tell.~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Lodestar
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Midnight ride
I watched this as I have loved previous Jim Jarmusch films I have seen. All of his films make you think, but this may be the hardest work of those I have seen so far. That is not to denegrate the film however.
I found the film dragged a little as it jumps from story to story, and would have been initially inclined to award 3 stars, however , I found this film stayed with me and like all Jarmusch's films got inside my head & started playing games. This is not just entertainment, this film requires the viewer to work with it and as such warrants at least 4 stars.
There is no need to rehearse the storylines as others have done that. Jump in, pay your fare and enjoy the ride.
Night on Earth
Five different cities provide the backdrop for a fistful of taxi-based vignettes, from director Jim Jarmusch
Her name was Lola; she was a sheep. As Roberto Benigni's lascivious taxi driver confides in his incredulous fare, he wanted "something that moved, that looks you in the eye... something with a soul."
After losing his virginity to a pumpkin, Lola was definitely a step in the right direction. Alas, his embarrassed father sold Lola to an "ugly, uneducated" butcher for 80,000 lire. "I felt so badly, I haven't eaten meat since." By the time he's confessed he's shagged his sister-in-law - her cotton panties reminded him of Lola's fleece - his passenger, a bishop (Bonacelli), is lying dead on the back seat from a shock-induced heart attack. It's 4am: what t...
Night on Earth
"...Disturbed....Jarmusch agains demonstrates his mastery of the comedy of the roundabout..."
Night on Earth
"...Jarmusch may be the first adept American director to specialize in downtime....Jarmusch is a traditional filmmaker..."
Night on Earth
Five hackney rides scram set on the same tenebrousness in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki. In each cab, a moving, scatty or grotesque curriculum vitae about life's little ironies unfolds. While the two American-based tales in Jim Jarmusch's highly available compendium cooperate with flat, the European segments — Roberto Benigni confessing all to his churchman-passenger, blind Béatrice Dalle teaching her cabbie a thing or two — hit the right note of quirkiness that has develop the manoeuvres accommodate chief's trademark. Well worth watching.
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