“Jim Jarmusch’s second film came to life thanks to a gift – 40 minutes of unused 16mm film from Wim Wenders. Jarmusch first turned this into a 30-minute short, and soon after, wrote a longer script to develop it into a minimalist, three-act road movie. In the press notes, Jarmusch described the film as a ‘semi-neorealist black comedy in the style of an imaginary Eastern European film director obsessed with Ozu and familiar with the 1950s American television show The Honeymooners.’ It won the Caméra d’Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival and went on to become one of the most influential independent films of the 1990s.” (Programme curator Karolis Žukas)