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Stranger than Paradise

Screening on Film
Directed by Jim Jarmusch.
With John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson.
US, 1984, 35mm, black & white, 89 min.

When sixteen-year-old Eva from Hungary invades the domain of her New York cousin, Willie, and his friend, Eddie, she is at first a source of color in their lives. A year later, after rescuing Eva from a midwestern winter and her eccentric Aunt Lotte, the quirky cabal heads south for an existential vacation in a paradise called Florida. Jarmusch’s low-budget film won the Camera d’Or at Cannes.

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