Broken Flowers

The day doesn't start well at all for Don Johnston (Bill Murray). First he is dumped by his much younger girlfriend Sherry (Julie Delpy), then a pink letter flutters into the house - not a love message, but the late receipt for an earlier liaison of the greying Don Juan: He has a son, now 19 years old, who might visit him soon, the anonymous writer threatens. And so, rather reluctantly and armed with pink flowers, Don embarks on a ludicrous journey into his past. What does not make the undertaking any easier is the fact that the unknown son's mother is not one, but four women in four different cities.

In this ravishingly laconic tragicomedy based on an idea by Bill Raden and Sara Driver, producer, director and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch sends the brilliant Bill Murray on an absurdly funny road trip through past loves, played by Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Francis Conroy or Tilda Swinton. A masterpiece full of lightness, tender poetry and subtle humour, it was screened in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, where it won the Grand Jury Prize.