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Stranger Than Paradise

Stranger Than Paradise

2DORCS15
Director:Jim Jarmusch
Cast:John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark
Premiere:19. January 2017
Length:89 minutes
Genre:Comedy, Drama

Director: Jim Jarmusch  •  Scenario: Jim Jarmusch  •  Camera: Tom DiCillo  •  Haircut: Jim Jarmusch, Melody London  •  Cast: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Tom DiCillo, Richard Boes, Sara Driver, Danny Rosen, Rockets Redglare

A tragicomic story full of dreamy and unbelievable coincidences. It is perhaps a feeling of disillusionment, of little possibility of communication, as well as an inner dissatisfaction with a fate from which there is no escape, that accompany the 16-year-old Hungarian emigrant Eva Molnar, her post-American cousin Willie and her friend Eddie. The story, while highlighting the uprootedness of these characters, also presents a moral about a world in which we bind ourselves and yet entrench ourselves in our appointed roles.Writer-director Jim Jarmusch's second feature film is shot in a minimalist style, with a raw black-and-white image, which here includes an austere plot and characters in the service of a poignant irony, touching on the audience's common perceptions of America as a land of dreams. The music, written by John Lurie (in a peculiar imitation of the style of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók), has an air of alienation.

Length: 89 min

Year: 1984
Local premiere date: 19. January 2017

Country of origin:

  • United states of America

Director: Jim Jarmusch  •  Scenario: Jim Jarmusch  •  Camera: Tom DiCillo  •  Haircut: Jim Jarmusch, Melody London  •  Cast: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Tom DiCillo, Richard Boes, Sara Driver, Danny Rosen, Rockets Redglare

A tragicomic story full of dreamy and unbelievable coincidences. It is perhaps a feeling of disillusionment, of little possibility of communication, as well as an inner dissatisfaction with a fate from which there is no escape, that accompany the 16-year-old Hungarian emigrant Eva Molnar, her post-American cousin Willie and her friend Eddie. The story, while highlighting the uprootedness of these characters, also presents a moral about a world in which we bind ourselves and yet entrench ourselves in our appointed roles.Writer-director Jim Jarmusch's second feature film is shot in a minimalist style, with a raw black-and-white image, which here includes an austere plot and characters in the service of a poignant irony, touching on the audience's common perceptions of America as a land of dreams. The music, written by John Lurie (in a peculiar imitation of the style of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók), has an air of alienation.

Year: 1984
Local premiere date: 19. January 2017

Country of origin:

  • United states of America