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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Constellation
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Constellation
  • 1 h 20 m
Bombay Beach

Summary 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....

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Constellation
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Constellation
  • 1 h 20 m

Bombay Beach

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.8
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Summary 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....

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
74
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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100
Feb 13, 2012
The 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.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
90
Feb 13, 2012
You either like this kind of ambitious, brave, borderless experiment or you don't, and I think it's absolutely magical and tragic.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 13, 2012
The fact that Alma Har'el is still stuck in music video director mode makes for an interesting new breed of documentary.
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60
Feb 13, 2012
But it's to little Benny that the film's heart belongs -- an adorable kid who seems to live only half in this world and the rest of the time in his own imagination, Benny's on a regimen of Ritalin and Lithium and other meds that sometimes leave him even dreamier than is his norm.
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60
Feb 13, 2012
More lyrical tone poem than straightforward documentary.
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50
Feb 13, 2012
Rather than bringing out the symbolic inner lives of the characters, these sequences seem like the intrusion of an aggressive authorial personality on a film whose subject-as well as the fact of Har'el's outsider status-demands that the filmmaker simply sit back and observe.
By Andrew Schenker FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 13, 2012
In an inspired twist, Har'el brings surreal levity to the potentially downer subject by interrupting her elegiac regional portraiture with a series of amateur dance numbers. Still, without dramatic momentum, this fringe-appeal snapshot feels less like a film than a coffee-table photo project come to life.
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.8
83% Positive
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0% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.8
83% Positive
5 Ratings
0% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Release Date Oct 14, 2011
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline I was in jail for one hundred years...
Website http://bombaybeachfilm.com/
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations
Woodstock Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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