Stranger Than Paradise (DVD)

Description: Director: Jim Jarmusch / Actors: John Lurie, Eszter Balint ... / DVD released 21 September, 2005 at AV Channel / ... more

Stranger Than Paradise (DVD) ... Features of the DVD: PAL

Newest Review: ... Jarmusch manages to get wonderful naturalistic performances out of them. They maybe basically playing themselves but that ... more

... makes them absolutely perfect for these roles. While, for any budding film-makers, this is a brilliant example of how to make a movie from so little. The plot as it is, is divided into 3 formal parts. Eva (Esther Balint), a teenage Hungarian girl emigrates to New York and stays with her thoroughly Americanised cousin Willie (John Lurie), who makes it obvious how unwelcome she is, before departing for their aged Aunt Lotte in Cleveland. A year later Willie, who finds himself missing Eva, and his amiable friend Eddie (Ri...more

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	Stranger Than Paradise [DVD] Release Date: 2005 - 09 - 21, Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45	£ 6.48

Stranger Than Paradise [DVD]
Release Date: 2005 - 09 - 21,

Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45

£ 6.48

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Stranger Than Paradise (DVD): The Real American Dream (709 words)
by - written on 30/01/01 (Very useful, 34 readings)
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I know it’s a cliché but Stranger Than Paradise really seems to be one of those movies that people either love or hate. And I know a lot who can’t stand it, hating its empty, vacant dialogue, D.O.A story-line or simply can’t get used to a movie without the usual Hollywood trappings of sex, violence and explosions. And certainly this isn’t one to watch after a wild, boozy party. This is a film primarily about silence and in its own quiet way it's totally audacious. I can’t think of any other film that would dare to point a camera at characters for minutes while they just drink beer and stare at the floor. Jim Jarmusch’s ... Read the complete review

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