Mystery Train
Dir: Jim Jarmusch
USA / Japan, 1989, 110minmins, DCP
Cast: Nagase Masatoshi, Kudoh Youki, Screamin' Jay Hawkins
On a strange day in Memphis, through the door of a dingy hotel filled with portraits of Elvis, a group of wanderers bunk together by chance: a feuding Japanese couple on a rock and roll odyssey, an Italian widow picking up her husband’s coffin, and a Brit drunkenly brandishing a gun in a bar. A radio rendition of Elvis’ Blue Moon and a gunshot next door are the only links for their stories, haunting in isolation. With Müller’s eerie blues hanging over empty streets, Jarmusch quietly observes the lost souls departing from Graceland in mystery trains.
Cannes Film Festival: Best Artistic Contribution
30.6.2019 (SUN): Film talk with Cheng Yu-shing
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Door Tickets Available at the Venue on Screening Date 2019-06-30 (Sun)
17:00Door Tickets Available at the Venue on Screening Date 2019-07-20 (Sat)
17:15
Festival Grand Cinema
Post-screening talk
Remarks
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