Writer/Director: Jim Jarmusch
Year: 2009
Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle
Editor: Jay Rabinowitz
I love this film, not only because it's one of my favorite directors working with my favorite cinematographer and editor and some of my absolute favorite actors (Isaach De Bankolé, Bill Murray, John Hurt, and Gael García Bernal) but because the cinematic poetry here is so mesmerizing. The themes and ideas regarding control, artist control especially, are meta. Jarmusch's characters speak of love for different art forms, just as Jarmusch practices an expert cinematic control in every dimension of filmmaking. De Bankolé's character exerts extreme zen self-control, just in order to kill Bill Murray's character, who is set up as the symbol of external control that hates the improvisation and disorganization of the arts. It really is a meditation on the different kinds of control and chaos, and the control artists must exert to protect their ability to be creative, unpredictable, even chaotic in their art. Art is neither total control nor total lack of control, there is control, and limits of that control.
This film is a masterpiece of poetic cinema, I love it.
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