Reviews

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  Film of the Week - The Most extraordinary documentary

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  BBC Film 2012

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  A truly delightful film infused with a strange charm and moments of visual poetry.

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  The Sunday Mirror 5/5

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  An eerily compelling documentary about lost souls in a lost place

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  The Guardian 4/5

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  Some inspired moments of magical realism, with one scene involving a child, a fire engine and a Bob Dylan tune that’ll make your spine tingle

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  The Mirror 5/5

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  This elegiac dance of a documentary is worth seeking out

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  The Times 4/5

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  Quirky, moving and unique, it’s a haunting bedside view of the place the American Dream went to die.

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  Total Film 4/5

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  Emits a rare and powerful hold, making it quite unforgettable

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  Empire Magazine 4/5

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  The crisp, artful photography, often drenched in rich magic-hour sunlight, is simply breathtaking.

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  Time Out London 4/5

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  Finds an uplifting beauty through dreamlike choreographed danced scenes

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  Little White Lies

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  Har’el’s brings her experience to bear on a documentary style that adds a new dimension to the form

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  The Arts Desk

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  A beautiful film, with crepuscular lighting Terrence Malick could envy.

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  List Magazine 4/5

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  Alma Har’el's magical and poetical film Bombay Beach is an enchanting documentary hybrid

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  Screen

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  Har'el finds a way for people who are not dancers to express themselves physically

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  LA Times

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  A mosaic that evokes the three ages of man in a postapocalyptic America

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  NY Times

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  Wonderful, remarkable and irresistible way of presenting strange truth through hyperreal execution

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  IndieWIRE

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  Alongside beautiful cinematography is an exceptional soundtrack

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  I-D Magazine