Five vignettes revolving around nighttime passengers and drivers in taxis in five cities.
A stylish film casting agent (Gena Rowlands) encounters a street savvy yet beautiful young gypsy cab driver (Winona Ryder) in an evening drive from a LA executive airport to the agent's posh home.
YoYo (Giancarlo Esposito) tries to teach a recent German immigrant, Helmut Grokenberger (Armin Mueller-Stahl) how to drive a taxi in NYC and navigate to Brooklyn when they encounter YoYo's slutty sister-in-law (Rosie Perez) on a rough street.
A black Parisian cabbie (Isaach De Bankolé) from the Ivory Coast learns about prejudice from a brash blind passenger (Béatrice Dalle).
A cab driver in Rome (Roberto Benigni) picks up a priest (Paolo Bonacelli) after a bit of playful but irritating shenanigans and then launches into a confession despite the priest's protests. Is it possible to talk someone to death? If so, Benigni is the one to try!
Mika (Matti Pellonpää) picks up three late night Helsinki drunks (Kari Väänänen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Tomi Salmela) and gives the men a lesson in problems.
There's a poignency in some of the stories while others are disarmingly funny.
Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.
My personal rating: B-
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