Film

Stranger Than Paradise

USA, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)  ·  1984  ·  DCP 2K  ·  Black and White  ·  90'  ·  o.v. English

Chosen by Marí Alessandrini.

Selected by Marí Alessandrini
Director of Zahorí


Unhealthy, lonely, soulless comfort... welcome Eva to paradise! Being a foreigner or stranger is expressed as an immutable condition in this paradise called North America, where disinherited young people end up being "neither from here, nor from there". Willie, a card player in depression, who has been living for ten years and has adapted in his way to New York, takes in against his will his young cousin from Budapest, Eva. Stranger Than Paradise (1984), it is a spiral breakout, from New York's Lower East Side, through the harsh winter of Lake Erie to the decaying beaches of Florida. A major work of cinema of the 80s with contemporary composition, where Jim Jarmusch captures with ironic and laconic poetry, the unleashing of disillusionment and disconnection of these three uprooted young people. A monochromatic road movie that advances in the mist, discovering that in "The American dream" for Willie, Eva & Eddie there is nothing to discover.

– Marí Alessandrini

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Director

Jim Jarmusch

Cast

John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Danny Rosen

Producer

Sara Driver

Co-producer

Christoph Holch

Cinematography

Tom DiCillo

Editing

Jim Jarmusch, Melody London

Sound

Greg Curry, Drew Kunin

Music

John Lurie

Screenplay

Jim Jarmusch

Production

Grokenberger Film Produktion

Cinesthesia Productions

Co-production

ZDF
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Filmcoopi Zürich
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Swiss distributor

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