"Broken Flowers"
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Filmoteca de Catalunya Plaça Salvador Seguí 1-9, 08001 Barcelona
Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch (USA, 2005).
When his latest girlfriend (Julie Delpy) leaves him, retired computer magnate Don Johnston (Bill Murray) has no greater ambition than to sit around the house. When he receives an anonymous letter from a former girlfriend claiming he has a 19-year-old son he's never met, Don doesn't even think to follow up. It's not until his neighbor, a mystery fan, encourages him that Don resolves to visit the exes who seem the most likely candidates and find out the truth.
"The story of Don Johnston—a seducer who discovers in his late fifties that there is a past and a future—is full of memorable moments. Like the gestures of its characters, nuanced and constantly evolving, the dialogues of Broken Flowers [hit the] mark because they point out with as much wisdom as subtlety the things that scare us. Among them loneliness, loss, guilt and having no other way out than resignation. And all these images give me goosebumps. All. Not just the most lyrical ones. This happens because their composition is impeccable, because they integrate seamlessly into the whole and because they always have a sentimental basis. When it comes to music, Broken Flowers doesn't need our favorite song playing to feel a lump in your throat. The way Jarmusch puts it, the way he intertwines it with the spirit of the characters, even the most difficult melodies become our favorite songs”—Desirée de Fez.
The film will be screened in English with Catalan subtitles.
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