Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Night on Earth (1991)

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch is behind one of my favorite conversational films, Coffee & Cigarettes.  In that, Jarmusch seemingly thrust celebrities together and recorded the results in a certain randomness.  So much so, that you could believe that Bill Murray is, in fact, human.

In Night on Earth, Jarmusch presents individual vignettes that occur inside taxi cabs across the world on the same night.  We jump from the US to Frances, Italy or Russia.  The film is interesting, quirky, dated, but only two stories were truly entertaining.  I was disappointed.

As I see it, Night on Earth just isn't interesting enough to warrant a rental.

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