Original Title: Down By Law (EU-Germany, 1986, N., 107 min)
French Title:
Under the blow of the law
Director and writer: Jim Jarmusch
Photography: Robby Müller
Music: John Lurie
Cast: John Lurie
Jack
Tom Waits: Zack
Roberto Benigni: Nicoletta Braschi Roberto
Nicoletta
Jim Jarmusch shows us an America populated by people uprooted, but nothing desperate
Article Daniele Heymann "cnn" May 1986
In 1984 , S abroad Than Paradise (Camera d'Or at Cannes), soon became a cult film, revealed the talent of a filmmaker completely free, totally independent, throwing on an ordinary heroes look mid-indulgent, half-serious. A friendly look, without excessive compassion. Down by Law plunges again in this sad and beautiful world - a Louisiana cleansed of its folklore, the wetness near the bayou, alligators infested obese and wandering thieves three comical woe. Zack, a disc jockey in the case (the singer Tom Waits insomnia and his voice) is fired by his girlfriend. As he heads his bottle of bourbon, he was asked to convey a voiture.Le trunk is occupied by a corpse. Trapped. Jack, a pimp at a discount (the musician John Lurie ), is offered a new choice hustler. In a sleazy hotel room, she is in bed. He approaches, cops pounce. The kid is 12 years old. Trapped. Zack and Jack find themselves in prison. They have nothing to say just to support themselves. When their cell welcomes another resident: Roberto , said Bob , the nicest of them and the only murderer of the three. It is very gay, draws a window on the wall of their prison.Son English is not even basic, it is hypothetical. He constantly tries to connect with a good will as an irritating rash.
But he, Bob , the nerdy talkative, who finds the opportunity to make beautiful. Wading through swamps, chased by dogs, cold, hunger, vagrants will go their way.
As in a fairy tale, they will find a small hut in the forest where Snow White immigrant will cook the spaghetti of salvation ... A permanent humor through this unusual comedy whose hero without qualities are closer Buster Keaton as Charlie Chaplin . They do not call for tender, they suffer the blows of fate that they themselves have caused grinning with dignity. (...) Both "Yankees" are powerfully aided by the presence in the role of Bob , Roberto Benigni, a mime surprising phenomenon explosive efficiency crafty. Tribute the gangster film, with John Huston at Samuel Fuller , Down by Law, photographed in black and white by Robby Müller , is a blues that, instead of distilling a classic sticky cockroach, relieve a cheerful melancholy.
Jim Jarmusch is a figurehead of American independent cinema
Article by Florence Colombani "cnn" in January 2009
It really looks inimitable a rocker, a silver hair since his youth, pale and elegant fingers decorated Gothic rings. As the king Elvis that haunts so many of his characters - from Mystery Train to Coffee and Cigarettes - Jim Jarmusch comes from the deepest U.S. . He grew up in Akron in the Ohio, an industrial city "terribly boring", he confided in an interview with the Guardian in 2004. Introduced to the arts through a fine mother, writing in the local newspaper and offered a translation of Proust for her sixteenth birthday, young Jarmusch moved to New York soon as possible. Brilliant student, he managed to quickly get a place in independent filmmaking. Down by Law, his second feature, requires a universe funny, sad and endearing, and a remarkable mastery of black and white.
The route Jim Jarmusch film follows the curve of friendships that have the force of passionate love. He attends Nicholas Ray , his teacher at New York University (NYU), when he allows himself to shoot his deathbed by Wim Wenders . People in It his films for relatives, always original artists, attracted by its fanciful and poetic temperament: Tom Waits excels as a comedian in Down by Law; Neil Young is ready to play in the documentary Year of the Horse , before composing music for an unforgettable Dead Man ; Roberto Benigni offers him the funniest moments of his work by adding to its usual mix of mime broken English and Tuscan dialect.
A talented novelist
the image of these unlikely personalities, the art of Jarmusch is singular, close to that of the novelist, rather than the novelist. He also excels in the film skits: in Mystery Train, the episodes are united by love of music and the city of Memphis; Night on Earth tells five taxi rides from Los Angeles to Helsinki via Rome and Paris ; Coffee and Cigarettes is a mosaic in black and white that ends with an air of Mahler. In the 1990s, his work is gaining in scale and ambition. Abandoning the unusual atmosphere that made it successful Jarmusch delves into the world of western philosophical and sign a parable, nourished Indian spirituality and the poetic world of William Blake . Dead Man - arguably his masterpiece - is the story of a journey toward death in a Far West decaying. In his next film, Ghost Dog , he reinvents the world of Jean-Pierre Melville and pays tribute to the legendary Samurai ( 1967). In 2005 , Broken Flowers revives structure films to sketches: a Don Juan on the back, played by Bill Murray , visits four former lovers. This melancholy walk of love and death emerges as a result, a reflective work, more minimalist than ever ...
Trailer: Down by Law (1986) Jim Jarmusch (Duration: 2 min 12 sec)
Preview: Down by Law (1986) Jim Jarmusch (Duration: 4 min 04 s)
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