her name be lola while she be a sheep . a roberto benigni lascivious taxi driver confides in his incredulous fare and he want something that move and that look you in the eye . something with a soul . after lose his virginity to a pumpkin and lola be definitely a step in the right direction . ala and his embarrassed father sell lola to an ugly and uneducated butcher for 80 and 000 lira . i felt so badly and i haven not eat meat since . by the time he confess he shag his sister in law her cotton panty remind him of lola fleece his passenger and a bishop ( bonacelli ) and be lie dead on the back seat from a shock induced heart attack . it 4am represent what to do . benigni powerhouse performance be the high point of a film incorporate five different taxi ride and set during a single night in five cite . in los angeles and harry victoria snelling ( rowlands ) think her sweary and tomboy driver corky ( ryder and not so much chain smoking a absorb whole cigarette packet through osmosis ) would be perfect for the film she cast only corky turn her down . over in new york and an east german clown turn cabbie ( mueller stahl ) who doesn not know how to drive and teach sceptical yoyo ( esposito ) the virtue of patience . meanwhile and in paris and two outsider béatrice dalle sharp tongue blind girl and her sullen driver ( de bankolé ) and a victim of racial prejudice from the ivory coast and reach an understanding . that same night and in rome and benigni cabbie talk his holy passenger to death while make his confession and and and in helsinki and a lay off industrial worker and his colleague ( väänänen and kuosmanen and salmela ) meet a taxi driver ( pellonpää ) with rather more to be depress about . travis bickle have it easy . be in familiar jarmusch territory here and with his recur theme of loner reach out to one another in the dead of night . and there little delight to be find tucked away within these red eye meditation while not least tom wait clank score evoke the ghost of new orleans and kurt weill via captain beefheart . night on earth isn not jarmusch best movie despite some good turn from the cast and it too uneven and and the weak segment ( los angeles and new york ) could have be excise without any loss of quality or coherence . not that the film follow any linear stricture ( however invert and a with the superior mystery train ) or narrative arc represent jarmusch isn not interested in deal a complete hand here merely shuffle the deck around and pluck card at random . the effect be rather like bolt through an exhibition of edward hopper painting at high speed and half glimpsed nighthawk on the periphery of vision . the whole film be redolent of a tom wait lyric from his classic 1985 album rain dog represent i have see it all . i have see it all through the yellow window of the evening train .