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 ... (Full plot summary below)
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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. 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, in a gently hypnotic style that questions whether they are a product of their world or if their world is a construct of their own imaginations.
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| Observer (UK)Philip FrenchA compelling, highly self-conscious documentary, it's involving, mystifying, unpatronising and carefully orchestrated. |
| Daily Mirror (UK)David EdwardsWhile candidly exploring the hard lives of the characters and their families, the film earns an extra star from some inspired moments of magical realism, with one scene involving a child, a fire engine and a Bob Dylan tune that'll make your spine tingle. |
| IndiewireEric KohnThe beautiful desolation of Bombay Beach makes it difficult to describe as a documentary. Alma Har'el's directorial debut takes a nonfiction setting and displays its haunting qualities in poetic terms. |
| Movies.comChristopher CampbellA wonderfully unconventional portrait ... part MTV, part PBS and altogether remarkably fresh. |
| Eye for FilmAmber WilkinsonThe surealist edge seems oddly fitting for a place so fundamentally weird as the Salton Sea, but also lends the film an elegiac and dreamy quality. |
| Filmcritic.comChris CabinHar'el still seems tied too tightly to her work as a music video director |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams"Bombay Beach" is an oasis of creativity in the documentary landscape. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirYou either like this kind of ambitious, brave, borderless experiment or you don't, and I think it's absolutely magical and tragic. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenLooks and feels like a fever dream about an alternate universe. Suffused with a sense of wonder, it hovers, dancing inside its own ethereal bubble. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineThis startling documentary explores a part of America few even want to admit exists: a place designed as a paradise that has instead become an almost apocalyptic wasteland populated by people who have fallen out of society. |
