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| "Bombay Beach unfortunately culminates into a film which - despite its sensual elegance - is nothing more than an overblown ballet of personal misery" |
Israeli director Alma Har'el has used her background in music video production (she directed videos for Beirut's Elephant Gun and Postcards from Italy) to add a surrealist edge to her documentary Bombay Beach (2011), a dreamlike portrait of human endurance in all its varying guises.
Bombay Beach focuses on a small American community inhabiting the remains of a once prosperous holiday town, which is now nothing more than a trace memory of better times. This thoughtful voyage into the core of human behaviour allows each of Bombay Beach's townsfolk the opportunity to share their entrancing back-stories and unique ability to survive amidst what is little more that an isolated dust bowl.
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