For a movie that’s supposed to have won the Grand Jury Prize in the Cannes Film Festival, this movie was very disappointing. Bill Murray plays Don Johnston, an ageing Don Juan. In the first scene, his girlfriend Sherry, played by the wispfully beautiful Julie Delpy, is shown leaving him because of his inability to commit.
One day, Don receives a letter which is unsigned and has no return address. The letter is from a former love who informs him that he has a son who has come to look for him.
Under his good friend’s instigation, Don then embarks on a journey which takes him too all his former loves in order to determine who had sent the letter.
The interesting parts of the movie are when Don meets his former loves who are played by Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Frances Conroy and Tilda Swinton. The ladies are really the only things that hold this movie up and make it tolerable.
Still, I didn’t like the slow pace of the movie and I’m getting bored with Bill Murray always playing such dour-faced characters (think Lost in Translation). I should have gone to watch Wallace & Gromit instead. I would definitely have been more entertained by it!