Sherry (Julie Delpy), the girlfriend of the former "Don Juan" and successful middle-age businessman Don Johnston (Bill Murray), ends their relationship and leaves him. At the same time, he receives an anonymous pink letter telling him that he has a nineteen years old son. Don's neighbor and friend, the worker family man and aspirant "Sherlock Holmes" Winston (Jeffrey Wright), asks the name of Don's girlfriends of twenty years ago and organizes a cross-country trip for him to meet the ladies and find the unknown son. The reluctant and emotionless Don visit's the widow Laura (Sharon Stone) with her sexually emancipated daughter Lolita (Alexis Dziena) and he has one night stand with Laura. Then he meets the successful real state agent Dora (Frances Conroy) and her husband Ron (Christopher McDonald) and they have dinner together. Then he comes to the office of the lesbian Dr. Carmen (Jessica Lange), who communicates with animals, and her jealous secretary (Chloë Sevigny) and he has a brief encounter with her. Finally he finds the resentful Penny (Tilda Swinton) in a community in the woods. The obsessed Don returns home without solving the mystery and realizing that the past is gone.
"Broken Flowers" is a weird little movie about obsession, loneliness and finished and unresolved empty relationships. The character Don Johnston is an expressionless introspective man, successful in his computer business but that has never built a long-term personal relationship. Former wolf, he apparently become aware that he has no legacy regarding his personal life, and the chance of having a son motives him to engage in a quixotic journey. Viewers familiarized with the work of Jim Jarmusch will enjoy this movie. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Flores Partidas" ("Broken Flowers")
"Broken Flowers" is a weird little movie about obsession, loneliness and finished and unresolved empty relationships. The character Don Johnston is an expressionless introspective man, successful in his computer business but that has never built a long-term personal relationship. Former wolf, he apparently become aware that he has no legacy regarding his personal life, and the chance of having a son motives him to engage in a quixotic journey. Viewers familiarized with the work of Jim Jarmusch will enjoy this movie. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Flores Partidas" ("Broken Flowers")