Bill Murray gives yet another simple, seemingly effortless, yet illuminating performance in Jim Jarmusch\'s Broken Flowers. --Bret Fetzer.
It\'s a movie that\'s wonderfully eloquent about what\'s not being said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bill Murray gives yet another simple, seemingly effortless, yet illuminating performance in Jim Jarmusch\'s Broken Flowers
