Down by Law (1986)
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
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It's been photographed by Robby Muller in the rich, almost liquid, black-and-white tones that recall films like ''The Big Heat'' and ''The Asphalt Jungle.''
It's been photographed by Robby Muller in the rich, almost liquid, black-and-white tones that recall films like ''The Big Heat'' and ''The Asphalt Jungle.''
American independent director Jim Jarmusch leaped onto the world cinema stage with the idiosyncratic deadpan road movie Stranger than Paradise in 1984 and then followed it up with the equally distinctive prison break movie Down by Law in 1986.
“Down By Law” was Jarmusch's follow up to his indie breakthrough “Stranger Than Paradise,” the laconic, low budget feature that propelled him to unlikely stardom, and it repeats many of the same themes and setups.
Combine thestunning success of "Stranger Than Paradise" (which was named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics in 1984) with the decision by its director, Jim Jarmusch, to make films outside the Hollywood system, and you get a lot of people rooting for him to fall on his face.
In fact, it is sort of the film by Jim Jarmusch; although his second feature, Stranger Than Paradise , that won him the Camera d'Or at Cannes and made him an international figure, it was this third feature that turned him into a brand name, and confirmed the extremely characteristic style that its predecessor established.
Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise follow-up (1986), about three small-time cons (John Lurie, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni) who bust out of jail, only to find that life on the outside isn't any more interesting than life indoors.
This trip is photographed with intense ethereality (this, along with Jim Jarmusch’s Down By Law and Dead Man, is one of cinematographer Robby Müller’s many distinguished efforts); dusk horizons have a fluorescent, neon quality seen in no other film.