Review of Night on Earth (1991) by Iikka V — 17 Aug 2013

Conversations in cabs in LA, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki. This is the kind of thing Jim Jarmusch is good at. I liked especially the New York segment, but the others were good too except for the Rome segment, which I found irritating because of Roberto Bengini's character.

As a Helsinki native I found the acting in the Helsinki section a bit too soap opera-like (one actor is overacting and another underacting) and the language not to sound like a Helsinki dialect, but I guess it's a bit harder for Jarmusch to direct when he probably doesn't understand the language.

That however will probably not bother people who don't speak the language either. I also found it funny how the cab seemed to teleport around town, especially when first driving next to old wooden houses in some more remote part of town, then turning a corner and being next to a 7-storey building downtown.

I'm sure this happened in the other cities too.