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Jim Jarmush Retrospective
A Hungarian immigrant Willie lives in Lower Manhattan, drifting aimlessly through his days, drowning in boredom. Occasionally, he and his friend Eddie play cards or go to the races. His monotonous routine is briefly interrupted by the unexpected arrival of his cousin Eva, but before long, she leaves for Cleveland to visit her grandmother. A year later, Willie and Eddie decide to go see Eva. Reunited, the band of three sets off for Florida, drawn by the promise of a sunny paradise with palm trees and girls in bikinis.
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“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)
Credentials
- DirectingJim Jarmusch
- The scriptJim Jarmusch
- PlaysJohn Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Danny Rosen, Tom DiCillo
- AssemblyMelody London, Jim Jarmusch
- CameraTom DiCillo
- MusicJohn Lurie
- DialoguesHungarian, English
- SubtitlesLithuanian, English
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