Mon 30 Jan, 18:30
Advance preview, followed by a Q&A with director Alma Har’el, chaired by Film 2012′s own Danny Leigh
Bombay Beach was the unanimous winner of the 2011 Tribeca Documentary Film Feature Award for its “…beauty, lyricism, empathy and invention.”
Film maker Alma Har’el joined the misbegotten community which lives in Bombay Beach, a long-forgotten town on the edge of a lake in the southern Californian desert. Once a resort for glamorous ’50s Hollywood stars, it’s now home to a marginalised group for whom the American Dream has no reality. Over the course of a year, Alma Har’el captured the lives of three residents, their relatives, and friends with her unique camera-eye and an all-embracing passion. Featuring specially choreographed dance numbers and a memorable sound track (think Dylan and Nick Drake), this is a doc knockout!
Terry Gilliam says of it: ”A beautiful, quirky and ultimately very moving film about the American Dream as it teeters on the edge of a desert sea.”
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