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Lundi, septembre 20th, 2010
Bagdad Cafe is an curious film, and I mean that as a compliment. The characters are all greatly flawed individuals who, as the film starts, are largely melancholy. CCH Pounder plays Brenda who owns the cafe. This woman could awe the camouflage off a cat with that shrill mumble that drives her husband off to park in the desert and examine her with binoculars for the rest of the film. Jasmin, the Bavarian German who likes her coffee strong, is beefy and seems to change clothes regularly despite having a suitcase supposedly filled only with men’s clothes. She is not the typical Hollywood star, but she comes to rep our hearts. Jack Palance as Rudy Cox, the residence painter from Hollywood, lives in a trailer and sees the world through rose colored glasses. His costumes are pure Santa Monica Boulevard chic. He charms us as he falls in adore. The sequence of paintings he does as Jasmin gets progressively less dressed is hysterical. The other characters are also recent. Brenda’s son who also has a son, a baby, wants nothing more than to play piano all day. The daughter dresses in trendy teenage garb and seems to repeatedly urge off with anything with two legs and pants. Debbie, the tatoo artist, seems like an S&M freak, and eventually leaves because “there is too remarkable harmony.”
The thing I appreciate about this film is that most all of the characters change. Jasmin’s unfolding is glowing. The themes in the movie of racial misunderstanding and harmony are also spellbinding. Jasmin has never seen blacks and pictures herself in tribal Africa being roasted for dinner. She’s amazed at how light the palms of Brenda’s daughter’s hand is, a simple detail but pleasing in its innocent sense of wonder. The DVD version doesn’t add a enormous amount of extras such as bonus material, but the movie itself is the reward. If you like upbeat films somewhat off the beaten track, discover out this cinematic gem.
Filmed not too far from here in the town of Baghdad in the Mojave Desert, Percy Adlon’s BAGHDAD CAFE has charmed honest about everyone who has stumbled across this literally off-the-beaten track 1987 gem that’s now available for the first time in a bare-bones widescreen DVD transfer.
The sage is deceptively simple. Marianne Sägebrecht is a German tourist who leaves — and is subsequently abandoned by — her husband(? ) in the California desert. In the middle of nowhere, she makes her device to the run-down, failing, Baghadad Cafe and Motel bustle by C.C.H. Pounder (ER’s Dr. Hicks) . The plump Sägebrecht expeditiously becomes a portion of the eccentric family under Pounders tough-talking rule. Not only that, her presence is the catalyst that transforms the forgotten roadside close into a bustling business and a life-altering experience for all exhibit. Jack Palance is unbelievable as an ex-Hollywood site designer and artist who sees Sägebrecht’s legal beauty and becomes obsessed about capturing it on canvas. What he sees Sägebrecht becomes and in the process impacts those she touches. This extraordinary film is about loving and accepting and believing and discovering and being. The current music by Bob Telson includes the haunting “Calling You” sung by Javetta Steele. This is one for the digital library. Highest recommendation.
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