Alone, it does not exist. This man only takes on consistency when he is with someone: the hero of “Broken Flowers”, gone on the roads to find his ex-fiancées, is the only character for whom Jim Jarmusch has no affection . This, however, is born and grows over the course of the film: Bill Murray, who plays this melancholy traveler, adds a touch of poetic indecision, and, at the end, we are conquered. Standing, lost at the crossroads of two streets, Murray looks at an uncertain future, while we hear Ethiopian music composed by Mulatu Astatke, virtuoso of the vibraphone and congas, father of Ethio-jazz.
Bill Murray has successively seen Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy, Chloë Sevigny and Frances Conroy, and only the ashes of these old loves remain. It’s in the way of Jarmusch, an extraordinary director (“Down by Law”, “Dead Man”, “Ghost Dog”), this way of filming a road trip where memories, emotions, old grudges pass . You have to let go: it’s cinema over the water, over the course of life. There is an inimitable touch there: Jarmusch is a rock impressionist.
Saturday January 21 at 10:35 p.m. on Ciné+ Emotion. American comedy-drama by Jim Jarmusch (2004). With Bill Murray. 1h45. (Multicast and On Demand).
