23 January 2006

Broken Flowers (USA, 2004)

This is another Jim Jarmusch movie. The pace is slow, so I was really trying to stay awake. For a moment or two my eyes were closing. But the problem is not the slow pace of the movie, it's the story. Bill Murray receives a letter from an old girlfriend telling him she was pregnant at the time and had a baby, his son. Bill decides to go look for her, since she didn't write her name, she just gave some clues. Throughout the film we meet a couple of her ex girlfriends, some of them happily married, others less fortunate. At the end we do not find out who the person was, so the whole travelling around doesn't come up to anything. The end leaves you with unanswered questions, and with a very ackward feeling of "did I miss something here?"

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