Night on Earth

128 mins
8.4 / 10 (15959)
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Synopsis

Five taxi drivers across the world have remarkable encounters over one eventful night. In LA, a talent agent decides her cabbie should star in her next movie. In Rome, a non-believing driver finds a dead bishop in his back seat. Meanwhile in Paris, a beautiful blind woman distracts her cabbie…

MUBI's take

Before his broader anthology film Coffee and Cigarettes, Jim Jarmusch traversed five cities for this tragicomic travelogue, a series of symmetrical vignettes that explore the ephemeral interactions and fleeting relationships between taxi drivers and their passengers. Featuring Gena Rowlands!