Just re-watched this after about 30 years. I remember liking it the first time around and it still works all these years later. Very little actually happens apart from the haircuts and the costumes. The band is so terrible they are actually good. In fairness to them they can actually play quite well although it is difficult to say at times.
The visual joke of having 8 or 9 band members in a kind of Spinal Tap meets the Blues Brothers and out performs both of them by doing very little is exactly the point. This film could be a really long episode of Seinfield. It is absurd, minimalist and highly entertaining.
I am a fan of deadpan humour and I can see why Jim Jarmusch was in the film and friends with the director. It shares certain stylistic tendencies with Stranger Than Paradise which predated in by a few years. The version I just watched was dubbed in Italian and it didn't make any difference. It is visually so smart that you don't need to know any of the dialogue really. A minimalist classic in my view.
The visual joke of having 8 or 9 band members in a kind of Spinal Tap meets the Blues Brothers and out performs both of them by doing very little is exactly the point. This film could be a really long episode of Seinfield. It is absurd, minimalist and highly entertaining.
I am a fan of deadpan humour and I can see why Jim Jarmusch was in the film and friends with the director. It shares certain stylistic tendencies with Stranger Than Paradise which predated in by a few years. The version I just watched was dubbed in Italian and it didn't make any difference. It is visually so smart that you don't need to know any of the dialogue really. A minimalist classic in my view.