Broken Flowers
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Actor: Alexis Dziena, Frances Conroy, Julie Delpy, Nicole Abisinio, Ryan DonowhoBrand: Universal Studios
Primary Contributor: Julie Delpy
Primary Contributor: Bill Murray
Primary Contributor: Stone, Sharon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Broken Flowers
Movie Review: Entertaining, but not destined for classic status
Summary: 3 Stars
In Jim Jarmusch's 2005 film BROKEN FLOWERS, Bill Murray stars as Don Johnston, a aging womanizer who in his mid-50s has yet to settle down. Just after his latest girlfriend leaves him, calling him an "over the hill Don Juan", he receives a letter from a woman claiming that they had a son together, who has now set off in search of his father. The letter has no signature, but Don's neighbour Winston (Jeffrey Wright), who fancies himself something of a sleuth, thinks that Don can track down the sender. After Winston has Don right down a list of four women who might be the mother, he sends Don off to visit them. As Don visits these women (played by Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy and Tilda Swinton), his reception gets progressively worse. The film's lacks a true conclusion, but nonetheless the ending seems satisfying.
I found BROKEN FLOWERS worthwhile enough on the first viewing, but I have no found it to have much staying power. The interactions between Don and the women he visits, on reflection, are not very believable. Bill Murray had been playing increasingly stoic roles over the preceding decades, from RUSHMORE through THE ROYAL TENNENBAUMS and THE LIFE AQUATIC, but here he seems to have fallen almost into self-parody.
Summary of Broken Flowers
WHEN A MYSTERIOUS PINK LETTER INFORMS DON JOHNSTON THAT HE MAY HAVE A 19 YEAR OLD SON, HE TRAVELS TO THE HOMES OF 4 FORMER LOVERS, WHERE HE COMES FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE ERRORS OF HIS PAST & POSSIBILITIES OF HIS FUTURE.Bill Murray gives yet another simple, seemingly effortless, yet illuminating performance in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers. Don Johnston (Murray, Lost in Translation, Rushmore) receives an anonymous letter telling him that he has a 19 year old son who's looking for him. Don only decides to investigate at the prompting of his neighbor Winston (the indispensable Jeffrey Wright, Shaft, Basquiat), who not only tracks down the current addresses of the possible mothers, he plans Don's entire trip down to the rental cars. Almost against his will, Don finds himself knocking at the doors of four very different women (Sharon Stone, The Quick and the Dead; Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under; Jessica Lange, Sweet Dreams; and Tilda Swinton, The Deep End) who were once his lovers. Part road movie, part detective story, part existential meditation, Broken Flowers is even more minimalist than most Jarmusch movies (Stranger Than Paradise, Dead Man, Mystery Train)--anyone looking for an easy resolution should look elsewhere. But for anyone willing to let a movie be a poem as much as a story--i.e., let it observe behavior without explaining it--Broken Flowers will offer a wealth of mysteries, gestures, and Bill Murray's soulful eyes. It's a movie that's wonderfully eloquent about what's not being said. --Bret Fetzer
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