I agree with your review (you wrote a review!) and love this film. It's a pity that because it's so low key, people seem to have largely dismissed it. Several people I know at NY press screenings have spoken disparagingly of it, and it was not much in the conversation at the Oscars. Jarmusch remains one of our distinctive auteurs of the past fifty years.

I recently got to see another film of the NYFF that I previously hadn't - Assayas' Personal Shopper. My review of that is in the NYFF Festival Coverage too, and I liked that much more than talk about it had led me to expect - though a colleague here had spoken with gentle favor of it; but the 'critics' at the publicist's screening were disparaging and dismissive afterwards - due mostly to the spiritualism/medium content. There is so much more there than that, and that is delicately and skillfully done.

What 'everybody' in the NY crowd seems to like now is I Am Not Your Negro (featured at the FSLC and one of Lincoln Center's biggest box office successes, I was told) - you might want to check that one out, it's very well done if a tiny bit overrated maybe - and O.J.: Made in America justifiably trumped it in the Oscars I think.