Broken Flowers
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The pace of "Broken Flowers" is slow, but Jarmusch treats us to an almost dizzying array of vivid, unexpected details: from the varying homes he enters to the unexpected characters he meets. Chloe Sevigny makes a terrific cameo appearance as a cynical, short-skirted receptionist, and young Alexis Dziena plays a nymphet daughter with an absurdly appropriate name of her own: Lola, or Lo, short for Lolita.
"Broken Flowers" cannot be described as a richly satisfying film. Something as tangible as satisfaction isn't in the cards for Don Johnston; the audience has no chance of getting such relief either. Jim Jarmusch, who has been intriguing, engaging and discomforting audiences since "Stranger than Paradise" (1983), is too scrupulously honest to give his film a tidy ending; there is no guarantee of redemption or even revelation. And yet, when called upon to give advice to a boy who may or may not be his son, Johnston has something to say.
About.com Rating
The pace of "Broken Flowers" is slow, but Jarmusch treats us to an almost dizzying array of vivid, unexpected details: from the varying homes he enters to the unexpected characters he meets. Chloe Sevigny makes a terrific cameo appearance as a cynical, short-skirted receptionist, and young Alexis Dziena plays a nymphet daughter with an absurdly appropriate name of her own: Lola, or Lo, short for Lolita.
"Broken Flowers" cannot be described as a richly satisfying film. Something as tangible as satisfaction isn't in the cards for Don Johnston; the audience has no chance of getting such relief either. Jim Jarmusch, who has been intriguing, engaging and discomforting audiences since "Stranger than Paradise" (1983), is too scrupulously honest to give his film a tidy ending; there is no guarantee of redemption or even revelation. And yet, when called upon to give advice to a boy who may or may not be his son, Johnston has something to say.
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