A bleak but mordantly funny portrait of three aimless characters who discover that "paradise" isn't such an easy place to find. Displaying a hip formalism, Jim Jarmusch's second feature (his first, 1980's PERMANENT VACATION, received scant exposure) is divided into three distinct sections;
individual sequences within each section are presented in one sustained take, and are separated by blackouts. The first finds Willie (John Lurie, of Lounge Lizard renown), a Hungarian emigre and self-styled hipster, living in a stark, dreary section of New York City. Willie's day-to-day existence
is interrupted when his relatives ask him to house his young female cousin, Eva (Esz...
Released:
1984
Rated:
R
Length:
95 mins