2005 1h 46m Jim Jarmusch

Broken Flowers

Name: Broken Flowers
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Made in Europe
Released: 2005
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Bill Murray, Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton

★ 7.1 IMDb

Comedy Drama Mystery & Thriller Romance Made in Europe

An introverted man receives an anonymous letter from an ex-lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor motivates the man to embark on a cross-country search for his past flames, seeking answers.

Writers Jim Jarmusch, Sara Driver

Cast Bill Murray, Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton

DP Frederick Elmes

Music Mulatu Astatke

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Broken Flowers by Chris Wisniewski, Reverse Shot Broken Flowers by Jonathan Rosenbaum Making nothing happen: the transition from reactive nihilism to affirmation in Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers (2005) by Anna Backman Rogers, Alphaville

On Jim Jarmusch

Dog Days: Introduction by Michael Koresky, Reverse Shot Notebook Primer: Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Outsider by Vikram Murthi, MUBI Notebook Ma, mu and the interstice: meditative form in the cinema of Jim Jarmusch by Roy Daly, Alphaville

In conversation with other films

The Taste of Ashes [SARABAND & BROKEN FLOWERS] by Jonathan Rosenbaum In Search of Lost Children By Anna Di Martino by Anna Di Martino, FIPRESCI

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