Filmbrain on Broken Flowers
Submitted by jim on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 11:28
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I'd quote more heavily from Filmbrain's review, but really what more do you need to hear beyond, "Bill Murray gives the performance of his career"? Okay, I can't resist one more bit:
To call this "just another white guy with a mid-life crisis" movie is to miss Jarmusch's point exactly. What Dead Man did for the Western, and Ghost Dog for the....well, inner-city Samurai assassin film, Broken Flowers does for the ur-romantic dramedy.
Now go read the rest. Looks like a movie to eagerly anticipate!
Well, I always anticipate a new Jarmusch film, but although this review sounds optimistic, and I adore Bill Murray (though more for his pre-'00 fame, cause I don't see him getting better as an actor in time. To me he was always very good, with variations through his career), I don't expect another Jarmusch Masterpiece like Permanent Vacation or Stranger than Paradise (not to speak of Dead Man, which is one of my Top 5 films for the last 4 years!), but more on par with Down by Law or Ghost Dog, which is "enough" for me :-p
I'm not a big fan of Mystery Train or Coffee & Cigarettes though :-(
I don’t know… a Jarmusch film without sharp wit and Bill Murray without sarcastic nature… ummm OK, I’ll see it. Even if I thought Coffee and Cigarettes was a little hit and miss, I still love this guy's movies. A quick nod to my favorite, Mystery Train (who imdb's "one line plot summary" has done more disservice to than any other movie I can think of.)
So?, same thing has been said from every Bill Murray film in the last few years.
Well then, if they're right, then he keeps getting better, which is quite a feat.
I'll give him Dead Man whole-heartedly, but what exactly did Ghost Dog do?
Do? I dunno. Sure did like it though. At the time it didn't bowl me over or anything, but years later I still find lots of chunks of it still indelibly inked in my mind, and that doesn't happen all that often.
Yeah, I meant what did the film do "for the... inner-city Samurai assassin film"? It was interesting, but I can't see how it contributed to the genre at all. It was thoughtful but overly ironic and full of cliches - nothing special.
I think the idea of it doing anything for the genre was a bit of a joke. Are there any other inner-city samurai assassin films?
Oh there are, I just don't watch them. But you're right - that bit was probably a joke though Dead Man probably wasn't. Gotcha.
In a year when Sin City came out (after I've been waiting nearly a decade), it's hard to believe I'm anticipating a film ever more now. I keep loving Murray more every time I hear something about him.
I am eagerly anticipating this movie. It's coming to a independent theater in florida in about 2 weeks.