Broken Flowers / Fleurs Brisées (Bilingual) [DVD]

Features

• Type: DVD
• Studio: Alliance Films
• Language(s): english, french
• Actor(s): Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy

As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. The situation causes Don to examine his relationships with women instead of moving on to the next one, and he embarks on a cross-country search for his old flames who might posses clues to the mystery at hand.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