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Featuring choreographed dance numbers set against music composed by Zach Condon from the band Beirut and songs by Bob Dylan, rarely has there been a more freewheeling documentary. The protagonists and dancers are the inhabitants Bombay Beach, a long-forgotten town set on the fringes of an artificial lake in the Arizona desert. Once hailed as a seaside resort for the rich and famous 50s Hollywood stars, it's now populated by a marginalized society in which the American Dream has long since vanished. Alma Har'el captured the life of three protagonists and their relatives and friends with her unique camera-eye and an all-embracing passion for her subjects during the year she spent in Bombay Beach. Not to be missed.

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