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Broken Flowers

The natural progression with the majority of Hollywood stars is that time is not kind and things do not get better with age. This thankfully is not the case with the wonderfully deep, thoughtful and heartbreaking Bill Murray. In the last decade, he has managed to take a career from Larger than Life to films like Lost in Translation, The Life Aquatic and most recently the latest from Jim Jarmusch, Broken Flowers. Here Jarmusch has created the most poignant film to be released this year and possibly of Murray’s storied career. Murray plays Don Johnston whose constantly confused moniker aside, is a man who spent too much of his time and money chasing women and is now left with too much money on top of too much time. The rest is a quest, not of self-discovery, but of self-revelation, handed down by his own reluctant curiosity to obtain the truth of his potential progeny. The remainder is a quiet film featuring an abundance of characters that range from an oversexed Sharon Stone, to a quirky Jessica Lange and a tragic Tilda Swinton. Murray’s performance is the best he’s given since he was wrongfully snubbed for Rushmore and just as broken. It has been a long road for Murray, but he finally has ushered in a new wave of brilliance, where he isn’t just the life of the party, but the whole reason the party was thrown. The disc comes from Focus, which is under the Universal banner and typically enjoys a slate of extras. Here, we are treated to a selection of extras, the first entitled Girls on a bus, which I’ll leave for you to figure out what that entails. The second is Broken Flowers: Start to Finish, which for the lovers of the clapboard, it will entice you to a second viewing to say the least.

Written by: Kevin Yeoman

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