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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A simple movie with a simple message, yeah, its slow moving but got for g'sakes you cant watch Transformers (fast but rubbish) all your life.
I think this movie asks me: what would you do if you were older, and alone, and you discovered you had a son but didnt know who he was or the mother? Would you go looking for him by visiting every one of your ex-girlfiends after 20 years? Isnt the past a dead world?
I thought Lost in Translation was boring but here I was hooked because I wanted to see what each of Bill Murrays (Don) ex-girlfriends were like. And how they would react to seeing Don.
I wanted a lovely ending, I wanted reconciliation, I wanted the boy he meets at the end to be his son.... but I think the movie ends as realistically as jarmusch could make it... with no answers. Don reaps what he sowed.... emptiness.
I think this movie asks me: what would you do if you were older, and alone, and you discovered you had a son but didnt know who he was or the mother? Would you go looking for him by visiting every one of your ex-girlfiends after 20 years? Isnt the past a dead world?
I thought Lost in Translation was boring but here I was hooked because I wanted to see what each of Bill Murrays (Don) ex-girlfriends were like. And how they would react to seeing Don.
I wanted a lovely ending, I wanted reconciliation, I wanted the boy he meets at the end to be his son.... but I think the movie ends as realistically as jarmusch could make it... with no answers. Don reaps what he sowed.... emptiness.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Truly astonishing that reviewers here are so hung up on action and can't appreciate the beauty of Broken Flowers, the deliciously subtle and playful humour, the craft of the director and cinematographer and above all the superb acting from a fine ensemble cast, led by the ever deadpan Bill Murray. Seems some people are uncomfortable with the time and space in which the characters live and breathe in their own quiet way, and also with the ambiguous resolution. Sorry guys, but life's like that! Well, don't watch if you're expecting labarynthine plot twists or ten deaths a minute, but luxuriate in the atmosphere, drink it in. This is not a perfect film but the good things here are totally spellbinding.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is not a fast paced wham-bam-thank-you-mam popcorn movie, it is a leisurely journey with a man trying to come to terms with his past. I came away from this wanting more, but knowing enough to be contented.An excellent movie well worth the attention of anyone with a soul
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Man reaching a crossroads
So, you have never seen Broken Flowers? Really? Well I am jealous. Jealous because I wish that I were just about to watch it for the first time. Read more
Published 3 months ago by customer
"The same but with more deadpan-ness"
Bill Murray's character here really does do similar things to the character in "Lost in Translation". Read more
Published 4 months ago by Henners
The peregrinations of a tedious man
Two minutes longer than Lost In Translation (2003) but it might as well be twenty. I have to say Sofia Coppola's film bored me first time but still must have got under my skin... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Philoctetes
Where droll meets dull
Reading reviews online it seems like the critics loved this film.
Most of the film-going public didn't.
For once I'm gonna side with Joe Public. Read more
Most of the film-going public didn't.
For once I'm gonna side with Joe Public. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jan Mecir
Funny and touching
A fantastic film - funny and touching - and with much to say about the human condition. It could be seen as a companion piece to Up in the Air and The Consequences of Love and like... Read more
Published 14 months ago by DHD
Subtle, sad and life-like
A former girlfriend recommended this film to me, after I had written a letter to her - and the film evoked lots of the emotions I felt when sending her the letter - a sense of... Read more
Published 19 months ago by William Cohen
Mysterious pink letter
A great perfomance from Bill Murray. Great Ethiopian jazz music (as always Jim Jarmush picked the perfect sound tracks) Here is a very original, funny and delicate movie, to see... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Raphaelle
Only good thing about this film is some of the soundtrack
How depressing. You get to watch Bill Murray sitting around a lot and driving in a car. I actually thought my TV had frozen at one point. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Discerning
More than melancholy...
Jim Jarmusch's comedy drama, Broken Flowers, takes us on a melancholy journey of reflection with successful IT businessman Don Johnston (Bill Murray) following a beak up with his... Read more
Published on 9 April 2010 by Luke Downing
Slow magic
Broken Flowers has a similar pace to Lost In Translation (so not one for action fans) and Bill Murry's character is similar in both movies. Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2009 by David Powell
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