This was no Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Thank goodness. Bill Murray still delivers that silent brooding-pondering-on-life’s-meaning type of acting but in an infinitely more interesting vehicle. In Broken Flowers, Murray plays Don Johnston, a forever bachelor, who one day receives an anonymous letter telling him he has a son who has come searching for him. He is all for ignoring the letter but his PI wannabe neighbour convinces him to track down his supposed son’s mother. So, for some reason, he embarks on this road trip that brings him back into the lives of former girlfriends played by Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton.

Overall it is an enjoyable movie, touching and dosed with subtle humour. To say too much more would give much of the story away. Suffice to say its not a movie that will come out and grab you, filled as it is with long pauses and silence and a lot of introspective analysis, but in the end will leave you wanting more.