Broken Flowers
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Canada DVD Cover InformationActor: Alexis Dziena, Frances Conroy, Julie Delpy, Nicole Abisinio, Ryan DonowhoBrand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN. Primary Contributor: Julie Delpy Primary Contributor: Murray, Bill 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-Video, 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 FlowersMovie Review: The back of Bill Murray's headThe problems with Broken Flowers are not so much caused by the movie--although it is very slow paced, enough to drive some people insane--but by the marketing. This movie is not hilarious, it's not a comedy at all; that a film has a couple of moments where you laugh does not make it a comedy. Nor does the casting of a primarily comedic actor in the lead make it a comedy. When Murray re-made The Razor's Edge, he explicitly said, "This is not a comedy" to every talk show host who would listen. But the studio undercut him by sending along a clip of the only funny moment in the entire film. And so here as well. Murray does nothing to make this a comedy; he clearly wants to be taken as a 'serious' actor. But someone in marketing thought that would be the kiss of death. So they've labelled a dark study of a man alone as hilarious and a comedy; it's actually a tragedy. Murray's character is emotionally detached from everyone, and has no understanding of how to reconnect. I'm reminded of Camus. Murray rarely shows any expression at all; the director emphasizes this by showing repeated shots of the back of Murray's head. What happens in this film is that nothing happens. Those flowers are broken for a reason--exactly what that reason is we are never told, nor do we particularly need to know--and no florist's trick can ever heal them. Going to a film with wildly wrong expectations can ruin the experience for a lot of people--no one on the creative side was done any favors by Hollywood's relentless quest for the dollar.
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