I Hope That The Library Will Get Another Copy Soon.

The absolute best "chapter" in this film is the one in Rome -- if you can watch Roberto Benigni in this film without laughing until your sides hurt, there is something seriously the matter with your funny bone. The L.A. story is the weakest & it's the first...so don't give up. The other four stories are much more interesting.

On the five glimpses, here is my rating: 1 ** 2 ** 3 *** 4 *************************** [LOVED IT!] 5 *

In a similar vein to the "Coffee and Cigarettes" compilation, I felt like a nearby eavesdropper to these varied intimate conversations. This feature, however, Jarmusch takes the viewer all over the globe, at the same synchronized moment in time. Tom Waits' soundtrack was his typically strange but cool. Winona Ryder was laughably awkward and miscast as the f-bomb dropping cabbie 'Corky'. Rosie Perez and her nasally shrillness (may God forgive me) should've been dropped into a bottomless chasm at birth. Béatrice Dalle was remarkable as the pissed off blind French woman. The Helsinki cab driver's tragic story shook things up a bit. But what made this package for me was Roberto Benigni. The man just cracks me up. His vignette confessing his carnal sins to the sickly priest was priceless.