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Stranger than Paradise is certainly a remarkable film, technically and dramatically. The camera follows Willie (John Luric). Eddie (Richard Edson) and Willie's Hungarian cousin Eva (Eszter Balint) as they drive from New York to Cleveland to Miami Beach in search of fun and excitement. They don't find any, but they do find a grainy black and white America and some money. Not quit paradise...
...THOUGH Willie's slurp were squashed into a shuffle and a whine. But Eddie's not an unlikeable guy; he's like an animated buffer zone. Eva, played with unself-conscious allure by Eszter Balint (formerly of the Hungarian Squat Theatre), is the film's discoverer of America. Her rare moments of enthusiasm are moments of anticipation: when she finally gets "there" (New York, Florida, Ohio) she basically discovers the meaning of disappointment. As four guide for the day, she points to a scene with an iron fence and a snowstorm and says, "Well, this is it. Eake Erie...
Price to Pay. The leftward step seemed to be the naming of Father Gyorgy Zemplen, 63, as auxiliary bishop to the apostolic administrator of Eszter-gom. Esztergom, which includes part of Budapest, is the old metropolitan see of Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty, now largely ignored in his self-imposed exile at the U.S. embassy - and Zemplen is known to have friendly relations with the Kadar government...
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