'Stranger than paradise'

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Rail 7: Studio 5 Movies

Jim Jarmusch - USA – 1984 – fiction – black&white – 88’ – OV – STT FR / NL

A young Jim Jarmusch directs this accomplished film, at once laconic and funny. A young Hungarian woman turns up in the New York apartment of her cousin and his equally clueless mate. The three head for Cleveland, where Eva’s aunt lives, and then she leaves again, after an existential and geographic road movie where love timidly shows its face. The black-and-white photography is by Tom DiCillo, and it’s perfectly suited to Jarmusch’s charming brand of minimalism 

With: John Lurie, Eszter Balint

Coprod. Flagey / Cinematek

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'A wonderful night in Split'

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Rail 7: Studio 5 Movies

Arsen A. Ostojic - CR – 2004 – fiction - black & white – 100’ – OV – STT FR / NL

A handful of people come and go in the medieval quarter of Split in Croatia. A small-time dealer, a junkie in need of a fix, a widow and her young son, an adolescent couple and American soldiers on leave…their destinies cross and their lives change at midnight. This elegant black-and-white film by Arsen Anton Ostojic is powerfully engaging, at once poetic and subtle.

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'The man who wasn't there'

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Joel Coen - USA – 2001 – fiction – black&white – 115’ – OV – STT FR

Among the Coen brothers’ triumphs thanks to its aesthetics, its mystery and a wonderful performance by Billy Bob Thornton. The story in set in the late 1940s in a small California town, where a barber suspects his wife of having an affair with his boss. He meets a shady travelling salesman who offers him an opportunity for change. The moral and physical transformation of a simpleton, in a subtle and unforgettable masterpiece fed by its authors’ love of the cinema.

With: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand

Coprod. Flagey / Cinematek

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