Proudly sporting the influence of Jim Jarmusch on his sleeve, Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki broke out of the art house ghetto and achieved cult status with this scattershot road movie. With their dead bassist travelling in his coffin and their Cadillac brimful of beer cans, the Leningrad Cowboys (whose hairstyles are more pointed than their winklepickers) fulfil their reputation as the world's worst rock band, as they lurch between disastrous Stateside gigs before finally landing in Mexico. Yet, this isn't a Spinal Tap-type of picture, as it isn't the Cowboys that are under the microscope, but the deliriously ordinary folk they meet en route.

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