Directed by Alma Har'el this documentary follows three residents living in Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California. This accidental artificial lake became an American Dream, the in scene for wealthy holiday goers and a development scheme boom peaking in the late 1950's. After this it slowly declined to a scene of old, weathered and warn out buildings, with a community of largely poor, working class and retired misfits. Alma Har'el brings us the life of three males living in Bombay Beach, one young child, one teenager and one retired old man. Bringing together three essential parts of manhood in a place that has seemed to have been left behind in the dust for many years, with this you start to understand what has happened to the American Dream and how the people left behind cope with day to day lives during a severely bad economic climate. What makes this documentary stand out from others is the way Alma Har'el has filmed it. With artful photography, dreaklike choreographed dance scenes, juxtapositions of outcasts and oddballs in beautiful scenes rich in the light of sunset and sunrise and moments of uplifting humanity and moments that create a bleak look on reality, this film stands out as a new breed of documentary film making.
