"Night on Earth" Jim Jarmusch's urban film that looks behind the scenes of cities on a global scale.

Jarmusch group completes

Jarmusch, who places great importance on character creation, is a director who values ​​his actors, and once he joins the Jarmusch group, they often work together multiple times.

Italian comedian Roberto Benigni appears in the film following his role in Down by Law (1986), playing the role of a Roman chauffeur. Last time, he played an Italian who couldn't speak English well, and his broken English actually brought an offbeat humor to the movie.

This time, because he is able to use his own native language, unlike in the previous movie, Benigni speaks rapidly and shows his true potential as a comedian. He then begins to confess his feelings to a priest with a chronic illness in his car, but this is nothing more than a (cheesy) confession.

The story about the sheep is reminiscent of the episode between the sheep and the doctor in Woody Allen's omnibus film ``Woody Allen's Everything About Sex That Everyone Wants to Know But It's a Little Hard to Ask' ' (1972). Yes, it was a bit of a laugh (although Benigni later appeared in Woody Allen's comedy `` Amore in Rome '' (12)).

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Isaac de Bankole, who played the role of the Parisian driver, joined the Jarmusch group after seeing this movie, and played the main character, a lone assassin, in `` Limits of Control '' (2009). He has also appeared in the director's works such as `` Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai '' (1999) and `` Coffee & Cigarettes '' (2003). He is an actor with a tough street sense, and in ``Night on Earth,'' the theme of ``Who is truly blind?'' is explored through his interactions with a blind man played by Beatrice Dalle. asked.

In his vignettes, one of the keywords is that he is from the Ivory Coast, and Isaac himself is also from the Ivory Coast.

The lively Rosie Perez, who appears in the New York version, also appears in `` The Dead Don't Die '' as a TV anchor. She is an actress whose breakthrough came in ` `Do the Right Thing '' (1989), directed by Jarmusch's former colleague Spike Lee. Perhaps because this film's co-star Giancarlo Esposito (who plays the passenger) also appears, this episode gives you a sense of the liveliness of a Spike Lee film.

The Helsinki scene will make you laugh with the name of the role he plays. The late Matti Peronpaa, a regular actor in Aki and Mika Kaurismäki's films, plays the driver, and his name is Mika. The name of the drunk man being carried into his car is Aki.

Aki Kaurismäki, whose style is sometimes compared to Jarmusch himself, is known as a big drinker, so I wonder if Aki was chosen to play the drunkard on purpose. Also, I wonder if Mika is conscious of his older brother, the director Mika Kaurismäki?

Jarmusch himself seems to love Aki's films, and the human warmth of the scenes in Helsinki make it feel like you're watching a scene from one of Aki's films.

Music by Tom Waits & Cinematography by Fredric Elms