Broken Flowers
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Movie Reviews of Broken Flowers
Movie Review: Jim Jarmusch, I love you
Summary: 5 Stars
I've seen many reviews here complaining about the ending. The ending was my favorite part. There were many beautiful moments in this film, but the ending, with Don in the crossroads, was the most beautiful of them all. It epitomized the entire film for me: him always faced with many possibilities, and never knowing which direction would be the right one that would lead him to what he was searching for.
Likewise, the idea of Don looking at every boy of a certain age and wondering if it was his son.... there's a justice in that. Not a nice one or a fair one, but a right and proper justice all the same.
I'm not much of a Bill Murray fan, and I swore off Julie Delpy after "White," but I was intrigued about this new Jarmusch movie with Sharon Stone and Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton (who, btw, was EXCELLENT in her very brief and all too short role). I loved the contrast between all the starring women. Were there any similarities? Just Don, I think.
Great cast, great script, great visuals. It's slow and ponderous, and not for everyone, but in itself, it sure is a swell film.
Movie Review: Ideal for insomnia patients
Summary: 5 Stars
Whether Bill Murray is boring or not in this movie seems to be irrelavant since he has always been the quintessence of boredom. Ever since he came up to the world screens, this actor seems to be an invitation to sleep. Just to look at his face - always the same - reveals a terrible lack of sleep, not to mention his total absence of histrionic ability. Actually, he put me to sleep exactly 20 minutes after these broken flowers started to wither (with LOST IN TRANSLATION, I slept almost the whole movie). BROKEN FLOWERS lacks dramatic development, is somewhat repetitive and very little (interesting) happens. I did enjoy the work of the actresses, though, such as Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, or Julie Delpy (that's the only reason I give 2 stars to the movie), but the film itself seems to me quite uninteresting. Probably, with a more charismatic main interpreter, it might've been catchier. As it is, it eternally and becomes quite effective as a sleeping pill. The movie is directed by Jim Jarmuch, the maker of COFFEE & CIGARRETTES: another bore.
Movie Review: beautiful, haunting, classic Jarmusch
Summary: 5 Stars
Like all of Jim Jarmusch's movies, "Broken Flowers" is above all a journey: sometimes quick, sometimes slow, sometimes interesting, sometimes fascinating, but always random, unpredictable, and deliciously impenetrable.
Really strong cast all around, from Jeffrey Wright (who supplies some awesome Ethiopian pop music) to Sharon Stone (in a non-bimbo role for a change) and Jessica Lange. As with most Jarmsuch movies the soundtrack is excellent.
I won't bore you with a plot synopsis, because many others here have done so already, and also because this movie is really not about plot at all. It's more about the absence of plot which is really the plot of all our lives...IF we are awake and aware and open enough to realize it. Yes, there is a strong Zen flavor to this film.
Unlike your typical linear 3-act, conflict-and-resolution movie (not to mention the moronic Hollywood mass movies Murray used to star in), "Broken Flowers" is a film you can come back to and watch over and over again and still find something new in it every time.
Movie Review: Subtleties
Summary: 5 Stars
"Broken Flowers" is just the kind of film I love: It's equal parts funny and sad, intelligently written, beautifully shot, and directed by someone smart enough to get out of the way and let the outstanding actors shine. And shine they do. Once again Bill Murray, as Don Johnston, is understated, and once again it works, allowing the rest of the cast to flesh out their richly idiosyncratic characters. The journey is Don's, but the film really belongs to the actresses who play his former lovers. Don sees himself, and the world, differently through the eyes of each of these four women. The beauty lies in the subtleties: the glimpse of nudity that Laura's (Sharon Stone) daughter un-self-consciously allows Don, the desperate looks Dora (Francis Conroy) shoots to Don over dinner with her obnoxious, soulless husband, the hostility that seethes under the surface of Carmen (Jessica Lange), or Don's strangely unsurprised reaction when he's attacked by Penney's (Tilda Swinton) backwoods companions. Rich, dreamy, and bittersweet, "Broken" never looked so good.Movie Review: funny and interesting film
Summary: 5 Stars
Bill Murray has been a part of many wonderful films over the years. Broken Flowers is yet another one.
The movie starts off pretty slow, I admit. It's slow and boring for about 20 minutes. But then the story picks up about a letter that shows up at his house one day, and it says Bill has a 20-year old son. He doesn't know who sent the letter. His neighbor tracks down the addresses of all the women who might be the mother of the child. It turns out there's four women who it might be. Bill goes on a journey to find the four women and find out which one has the son.
Now, with that out of the way, I thought the movie was hilarious. It's not supposed to be realistic- the humor lies in the way Bill interacts with the women. All four of the women turn out to be VERY different from one another, and that's where the plot and the humor kick in.
I have nothing more to add except if you like Bill Murray films, give this one a chance. It's very good.