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Movie Overview
Cast
John Lurie
Richard Edson
Eszter Balint
Director
Jim Jarmusch
MPAA Rating
R
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
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"Jarmusch constructs from basic ingredients a complex of narrative symmetry and existential ennui pointing to something far more resonant than the sum of its parts."
Eye for Film
Anton Bitel
3/5
"A whimsical picaresque tale."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
4/5
"the American Dream inverted, that its characters are carefree is a by-product not of sharing in the Dream, but of dealing with life on the margins."
Filmcritic.com
Jay Antani
3.5/5
"The movie is not about plot. It is about mood, and to a lesser extent about character."
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Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
"Its characters’ vacant aspirations are equated by
Stranger Than Paradise
’s lack of conventional purpose – this is the film’s idiosyncratic strength."
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Rumsey Taylor
"... like a French New wave film by way of Bela Tarr, directed with a hipster American comic sensibility and an outsider's fascination with the details of the everyday."
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
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