Friday, July 22, 2011

Arizona Dream (1993)

Director: Emir Kusturica
Writers:  David Atkins, Emir Kusturica
Cast:      Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor, Vincent Gallo, Jerry Lewis
Axel (Johnny Depp) has a job of tagging fishes in New York city. Axel's cousin Paul   (Vincent Gallo) coaxes him to go to Arizona to attend his uncle Leo's (Jerry Lewis) wedding. Leo persuades Axel to take up the family business of selling Cadillacs. There he encounters two strange women: Elaine, a woman who had aspires to build a  flying machine, and her suicidal step daughter Grace. Axel lusts after Elaine and moves in with them to build the flying machine. Film follows what happens to the three in a surreal comedic way. There are scenes of Paul enacting scenes from North by North West and Godfather 2 which are great.

The film was released throughout Europe but in US it was only given a limited release. All round the entire cast has done a great job and Faye Dunaway consider this to be among her best roles.

Rating: 4/5

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