Description: Several crazy characters converge on a rundown hotel in Memphis, Tennessee - Japanese teenagers on a pilgrimage to Elvis' birthplace, an Italian widow making arrangements to fly her husband's body to Rome, and a group of thugs on the run...
Description Several crazy characters converge on a rundown hotel in Memphis, Tennessee - Japanese teenagers on a pilgrimage to Elvis' birthplace, an Italian widow making arrangements to fly her husband's body to Rome, and a group of thugs on the run from the police.
Editorial Reviews "...Evocatively photographed...touched with comic inspiration..." Sight and Sound - p.64 - John Pym
"...Blissful....[Jarmusch is especially] good with actors. The MYSTERY TRAIN performers fly..." New York Times - p.C16 - Vincent Canby
"...[The film] lingers on in the memory....Jarmusch's conscious, Downtown deadpan style belies a wonderful romantic spirit. He has a sense of time -- of the moment, and of time passing -- that is heartbreaking..." Film Comment - p.67-9 - Harlan Jacobson
"...It's a jewel-like, minimalist film about a group of crisscrossing wanderers and outlaws on one lyrically strange day and night in Memphis -- where haphazard-seeming events slowly merge into entrancingly complex figures and patterns..." Los Angeles Times - p.C12 - Michael Wilmington