Night on Earth
Five different cab rides in five location in the world experience a surprise similar tonight. They try to explain the reason to end their unexpected circumstance.
12 August 1957, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
19 December 1964, Brest, Finistère, France
28 February 1937, Rome, Lazio, Italy
28 March 1951, Helsinki, Finland
6 September 1964, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
27 February 1957, Helsinki, Finland
17 September 1953, Ivalo, Finland
26 April 1958, Copenhagen, Denmark
24 May 1945, Helsinki, Finland
29 October 1971, Winona, Minnesota, USA
17 July 1957, Tuusula, Finland
27 October 1952, Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy
29 August 1958, Yaoundé, Cameroon
8 October 1949
6 September 1956, Finland
17 December 1930, Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany [now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]
19 June 1930, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
September 16, 2006
Revisiting his interest in oblique comedy, Jarmusch explores a primal relationship, that of a passenger and taxi driver, using the cab as a temporary shared world, from which one party may emerge shaken up or feeling differently about himself/herself
November 14, 2005
Almost good, but not quite there.
August 13, 2005
Beautiful color cityscapes
October 26, 2008
Takes us to places most other filmmakers never do.
January 01, 2000
Unfortunately, Jarmusch's lackadaisical minimalist aesthetic and his chronic lack of energy are the only unifying elements.
May 12, 2017
Throughout, Jim Jarmusch playfully blurs the line between driver/passenger, servant/customer, and native/immigrant.
January 01, 2000
At the end, we have learned no great lessons and arrived at no thrilling conclusions, but we have shared the community of the night, when people are unbuttoned and vulnerable - more ready to speak about what's really on their minds.
May 20, 2003
With this, his fourth commercially released feature, Mr. Jarmusch again demonstrates his mastery of comedy of the oblique.
February 13, 2008
Jarmusch's most accessible exercise to date while also his least seen
January 01, 2000
"Night on Earth" sounds better than it turns out to be.
December 12, 1991
Night on Earth dawdles a bit, and a couple of the segments, notably the one in Helsinki, feel like half-baked epiphanies. Throughout, though, there are moments that catch you delightfully off guard.
January 26, 2006
Though it may take a while to get Jarmusch's gist, hang in there; by the time Tom Waits growls his lovely closing waltz over the credits, Jarmusch has shown us moments most filmmakers don't even notice.
