Friday, 6 November 2015

Broken Flowers (2004 Jim Jarmusch & scr)

The deadpan Bill Murray confronts various women from his past - Sharon Stone (and 'Lolita' Alexis Dziena), Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under), Jessica Lange (with Chloe Sevigny) and Tilda Swinton, whilst finding some emotion finally at graveside of the one that died... Jeffrey Wright and Heather Simms are the lovely neighbours.

Very dry, and funny. Simply told with most interesting (actually unforgettable) music by Ethiopian jazz artist Mulatu Astatke.

Whole film is deadpan, actually.

The film clip I didn't recognise is The Private Life of Don Juan (1934, Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon).

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