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LONERS.(Broken Flowers)(Grizzly Man)(Movie Review)

The New Yorker

| August 08, 2005 | Denby, David | COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Bill Murray has strong cheekbones, a lordly crest of hair, and thin lips that he presses together in an act that suggests self-containment more than disapproval. In Jim Jarmusch's new "Broken Flowers," as in "Rushmore" and the recent "Lost in Translation," the teasing ironist-clown of twenty years ago has vanished. At the age of fifty-four, Murray has become rather imposing--he holds the camera with little flickers of amusement in his eyes and tiny changes of emphasis and color in his voice. He's now a major actor, but in a specialized way: he doesn't extend himself much, and it's initially hard to imagine him as what he's supposed to be in "Broken Flowers," an ...

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