Bombay Beach

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The rusting relic of a failed 1950s development scheme, the Salton Sea is a barren California landscape often seen as a symbol of the failed American Dream. First-time director Alma Har’el visits this poetically fruitful terrain and finds there a motley cast, including a bipolar seven-year-old, a lovelorn high school football star, and an octogenarian poet-prophet. Together they make up a triptych of manhood in its decisive moments, populating the Salton Sea's land of thwarted opportunity.

True to her roots as a photographer, video artist, and music video director, Alma Har’el crafts an adamantly atypical and artistically innovative film. Bombay Beach is a dreamlike poem that sets these personal stories to a stylized melding of observational documentary and choreographed dance, to music specially composed for the film by Zach Condon of the band Beirut, and songs by Bob Dylan.

The result is a moving and madly inventive documentary experience - an evocative, symbolic portrait of rural America and its inhabitants.

Special Features:

* Deleted Scenes
* Where are they now?
* Commentary by Director, Editor and Choreographer
* Trailer
* Music Video

Duration:: 80 mins
Director:: Alma Har'el
Country:: USA
Certificate:: E
Genre:: Documentary

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