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Bookmark this pageI Was on Mars (1991)
Director: Dani Levy
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From Time Out Film Guide
It's taken a few years for them to gestate, but Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise has fathered a brood of low-budget Euro-movies about the trials and tribulations of foreigners newly arrived in New York. This is one of them: a relentlessly in-your-face tragi-comedy about a young woman from Warsaw who speaks no English and loses the few greenbacks she has to the first guy she meets, a loud-suited spiv. Levi himself plays the conman as a sleazeball who takes the bit-players in GoodFellas as role models; co-writer Maria Schrader plays the Polish girl as dogged perseverance personified. Sometimes raucous, sometimes forlorn, but very rarely convincing.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Dani Levy
Producer: Ted Hope, James Schamus
Cast: Maria Schrader, Dani Levy, Mario Giacalone, Antonia Rey full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 87 mins
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