Stranger Than Paradise

Stranger Than Paradise vaguely associatively linked to Jim Jarmuschs wintery Eighties road movie is a genuinely filmchoreographed work a hybrid subtly futuristic chamber play for eight people and an investigative camera Set in sunken moods and deceptive images this dance film is an elegy that marks the transition from one species to the next Stranger Than Paradise is a reflection of the systematic expansion of the human and animalistic into the mechanical and sometimes their hybrid existence The body is obsolescent it is still needed but the preparations for its abolition are in progress