Short film
Stranger Than Paradise
1983 · 32 min
Deadpan, drifting vignettes of muted black-and-white stillness, where nothing much happens and the emptiness quietly lingers.
- Directed by
- Jim Jarmusch
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Starring
- John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson
- Overview
- 30-minute short subject film that would become Stranger Than Paradise. This short was released as a standalone film in 1982, and shown as "Stranger Than Paradise" at the 1983 International Film Festival Rotterdam. When it was later expanded into a three-act feature, that name was appropriated for the feature itself, and the initial segment was renamed "The New World".
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Isolation, identity, friendship, immigration
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
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- Directed by
- Jim Jarmusch
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Starring
- John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson
