Broken Flowers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Broken Flowers |
| Original title | Broken Flowers |
| Country of production |
USA France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | approx. 101 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jim Jarmusch |
| script | Jim Jarmusch |
| production | Jim Jarmusch, Jon Kilik , Stacey E. Smith |
| music | Mulatu Astatke |
| camera | Frederick Elmes |
| cut | Jay Rabinowitz |
| occupation | |
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Broken Flowers is a tragicomic road movie about an old Don Juan by Jim Jarmusch , who also wrote the script and produced the film. The cinema release in Germany was on September 8, 2005, and more than half a million viewers attended the performances. The film was released in Swiss cinemas on November 10, 2005.
At the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 it was shown in the competition for the Palme d'Or and was awarded the “Grand Jury Prize”.
action
Just as the aging IT professional and eternal bachelor Don Johnston is leaving by his young friend Sherry, he receives an anonymous letter (red ink on pink letter paper) informing him that he is a 19 year old Son who is said to have set out to look for him.
Don's neighbor Winston, an avid hobby detective , urges him to make a list of his former friends who are eligible for the letter. During his research, Winston finds out what happened to the five women in question. One of them has since died in a traffic accident. For the remaining four, Winston creates a complete travel plan for Don with flight, car and hotel bookings. And finally he manages to get the hesitant Don to embark on this odyssey across the country to the potential senders.
It is not just a trip to Johnston's "alumni", rather it is an ironically pointed tour of American society and its different lifestyles.
Don’s trip is extremely eventful, but none of the women can or will give him any clues about said son. When he returns home, he meets a young man in front of a restaurant, who he ultimately assumes may be his son. But this one runs away. Don initially pursues him on foot, but then stops at an intersection and looks after the running youth. Shortly afterwards, he becomes aware of a passing VW Beetle with the same music that he hears. A young man is leaning out of the window and staring at him. He's wearing a jacket similar to that of the youngster Don just thought his son was.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed and recorded by the Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke . His song “Yekermo Sew” and Jarmusch-typical motifs from street scenes form the interlude of the film. Also on the soundtrack are u. a. Hear songs from Sleep , Holly Golightly , The Brian Jonestown Massacre , Marvin Gaye and the Greenhornes .
Emergence
Jim Jarmusch is said to have written the script in two and a half weeks. He wrote the main role exclusively for Bill Murray , as he is a big fan of the actor.
Reviews
"[... A] pleasure to watch how he [Murray], with his flawless timing, forms a figure that is funny and also a little tragic, to which a past grows from which nothing has emerged for the present [...]"
"A brittle, yet entertaining film, the most impressive leading actor of which goes into his role and which comes up with the message that only life in the here and now makes sense."
“The extremely satisfying thing about Jarmusch's film is that it consistently subverts the clichés of the road movie genre and shows the hero's journey not as a developmental movement from the lonely, depressive loner to the open, caring person, but rather the (anyway very half-hearted) efforts of his Deliberately lets protagonists run into nothing. "
Trivia
- The youngster in the VW Beetle at the end of the film is played by Homer Murray, Bill Murray's eldest son.
Web links
- Broken Flowers in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Broken Flowers atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Jim Jarmusch Symposium in Reverse Shot (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Broken Flowers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 583 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Broken Flowers . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Broken Flowers. In: German synchronous card index. Retrieved February 3, 2009 .
- ↑ Verena Lueken: The silent Don. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 18, 2005, accessed August 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Broken Flowers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 5, 2016 .
- ^ Welf Lindner: film review. In: Critic.de. August 25, 2005, accessed March 20, 2013 .