Bombay Beach (2011)





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. The trials of Benny Parrish, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder whose troubled soul and vivid imagination create both suffering and joy for him and his complex and loving family. The story of CeeJay Thompson, a black teenager and aspiring football player who has taken refuge in Bombay Beach hoping to avoid the same fate of his cousin who was murdered by a gang of youths in Los Angeles; and that of Red, an ancient survivor, once an oil field worker, living on the fumes of whiskey, cigarettes and an irrepressible love of life. Together these portraits form a triptych of manhood in its various ages and guises.


Articles on Bombay Beach

Nick Bradshaw, California Dreaming, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 3 (March), 2012 pp. 34-36

Reviews

Hannah McGill, Bombay Beach, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 2 (February), 2012 pp. 61

PW, Bombay Beach, in: Empire, nr. 273 (March), 2012 pp. 50

Patrick Seyboth, Bombay Beach, in: epd Film, nr. 9, 2012 pp. 58-59

Esther Buss, Bombay Beach, in: Filmdienst, nr. 20 (27. September 2012), 2012 pp. 27

Bombay Beach
United States 2011

Directed by
Alma Har'el


Year: 2011
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 1758576