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Bombay Beach

Documentary, Drama - 2011
Bombay Beach
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7.0
77%
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Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea, a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Har'el tells the story of three protagonists. Together these portraits form a triptych of manhood in its various ages and guises...
Director:
,
Alma Har'el
Cast:
,
Benny Parrish
,
Pamela Parrish
,
Mike Parrish
,
Doran "Red" Furgie
,
Cedric Thompson

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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
80 min
Release date:
14 Oct 2011
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 4 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
"Bombay Beach" is an oasis of creativity in the documentary landscape.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
13 Apr 2012
fresh:
Har'el's film is at times bizarrely uplifting, at others crushingly sad...
– Tom Huddleston,
Time Out,
31 Jan 2012
fresh:
That it documents rural poverty in the American West without exploiting or sanctifying its subjects would be cause enough for praise. But this doesn't begin to approach what Alma Har'el pulls off with her hybrid doc knockout Bombay Beach.
– Eric Hynes,
Village Voice,
2 Nov 2011
fresh:
More lyrical tone poem than straightforward documentary.
– Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Oct 2011
fresh:
You either like this kind of ambitious, brave, borderless experiment or you don't, and I think it's absolutely magical and tragic.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
13 Oct 2011
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