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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.
17 December 1930, Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany [now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]
27 October 1952, Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy
19 December 1964, Brest, Finistère, France
29 August 1958, Yaoundé, Cameroon
17 July 1957, Tuusula, Finland
24 May 1945, Helsinki, Finland
8 October 1949
August 13, 2005
Beautiful color cityscapes
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 01, 2000
Unfortunately, Jarmusch's lackadaisical minimalist aesthetic and his chronic lack of energy are the only unifying elements.
November 14, 2005
Almost good, but not quite there.
February 13, 2008
Jarmusch's most accessible exercise to date while also his least seen
October 26, 2008
Takes us to places most other filmmakers never do.
May 20, 2003
With this, his fourth commercially released feature, Mr. Jarmusch again demonstrates his mastery of comedy of the oblique.
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
January 01, 2000
"Night on Earth" sounds better than it turns out to be.
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.
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.
May 12, 2017
Throughout, Jim Jarmusch playfully blurs the line between driver/passenger, servant/customer, and native/immigrant.