Pulling Focus: Down By Law (1986)

“It is a sad and beautiful world.” – Roberto (played by Roberto Benigni)   I fought the law and the law won Incidental encounters and tough luck reluctantly come together in writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s deeply distinctive third feature from 1986, Down By Law. Existing in its own even tempered and hermetically sealed cosmology, joyfully noncommercial […]