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Typical Jarmusch that he has the audacity to make a film consisting of coffee table conversations. It’s a very strange brew, but quite wonderful. I suppose the series of grainy black and white vignettes are helped by having some famous faces share the cigarettes. There are lots of nice cameos: for instance Tom Waits (who is, of course, God come down to earth as a hobo), or Steve Buscemi (Mr “never fails to steel the scene”), or Bill Murray (at his understated best). The real star, however, is Jarmusch’s style: the way he lets a scene set its own pace, and the way he just looks at life askance. Favourite scene? I think it has to be Molina and Coogan. Cousins?
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