Night on Earth
At 7:07 p.m., a casting director hails a taxi in Los Angeles. At exactly the same moment, in four other cities across the U.S. and Europe—and thus in a different time zone—very different people take taxis: a streetwise young man, an attractive blind woman, a priest, and a group of drunk friends. The taxi drivers are just as diverse: one can’t actually drive, while another is a bit too candid in sharing his unusual sexual preferences with his passenger. It’s no surprise, then, that remarkable conversations take place during the ride, that crazy things happen. And all of this takes place at 10:07 p.m. in New York, at 4:07 a.m. in Paris and Rome, and at 5:07 a.m. in Helsinki.
In this comedy-drama, which he wrote in eight days, director Jim Jarmusch specifically chose these cities because that’s where the actors he wanted to work with lived. Among them are Geena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Béatrice Dalle, Roberto Benigni, and Matti Pellonpää. The soundtrack is by Tom Waits.
