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...Best Actor? Too Many. In most of the competition films, the central figures of agony or ecstasy were men: Daniel Auteuil in Hidden,Viggo Mortensen in Violence, Bill Murray in Broken Flowers, Jeremie Renier in L'Enfant, Nazmi Kirik in Kilometre Zero, Michael Pitt in Last Days, Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking, Mickey Rourke or Bruce Willis in Sin City, Tony Leung Ka-fei or Simon Yam in Election... the list is distinguished, and nearly endless...
...Broken Flowers held promise of being a breakthrough comedy for Jarmusch. Murray, lately the go-to actor for independent-minded directors, has established an amusingly dour screen personality that twins nicely with Jarmusch's. The writer-director shows his understanding of the Murray persona by casting him as Don Johnston, a man who searches for the mother of his son less out of a passion for knowledge than because he lacks the resolve to say no to his neighbor Winston (Jeffrey Wright), who had eagerly proposed the trip. The presence of Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton...
...Cronenberg's A History of Violence, a quiet Midwestern family man (Viggo Mortsensen) is accused by some visiting gangsters of having been a hit man in Philly. In Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, a retired computer mogul (Bill Murray) learns that 20 years ago he fathered a child who is now trying to find him. In Marsh's The King, a preacher (William Hurt) who a generation earlier fathered and abandoned a child out of wedlock must pay for his age-old sin when the son (Gael Garcia Bernal) shows up. And in Von Trier's Manderlay, set in Alabama...
...favorite to win the Palme d'Or, refused to unravel its central enigma. So does Broken Flowers, though Don need only ask a question or two of a few people he meets to find what he was ostensibly searching for. The mystery and the answer, Jarmusch says, is in Murray's face, whose contours and conundrums are always worth studying. A brief glance upward earns as big a laugh as any Will Ferrell pratfall; a tear welling in his left eye has the impact of a Niagara from some soap opera star. But, here at least, he's not handing...
...University feel like they have a stake in the center and would like to have had some open discussion about its future mission,” the professor said. “Obviously the character of the director will have a great influence on the center. Given that Murray is running an empire, can he manage the center in addition?...We know that he’s superman, but this is quite an addition...