Bombay Beach

DocumentaryDrama

2011, Movie, 1h 20min

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...

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7.0

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6.5

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Critic Phil Wilding

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...uncovers the place’s raw beauty with a blend of observational work and passages of choreographed dance.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Noel Murray

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Har’el clearly got to know and love her subjects...

Read full review at The A.V. Club

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In a forgotten desert town, where the American dream has faded, three men's lives intersect in a tapestry of surreal beauty and poetry. Bombay Beach, a documentary by Alma Ha'rel, weaves together the stories of Benny, a young boy with bipolar disorder, CeeJay, a black teenager escaping gang violence, and Red, a whiskey-soaked oil field worker, to paint a stirring portrait of manhood in its varied forms. Set to the music of Bob Dylan and Beirut, this film is a fever dream of an alternate universe, where the broken dreams of the past coexist with the persistence of hope. Winner of the Best Documentary prize at the Tribeca Film Festival, Bombay Beach is a powerful, ethereal exploration of the human experience.

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Bombay Beach was released in theaters on October 14, 2011.