Arizona Dream- review (by @kork75)

"Arizona Dream" is the fourth feature film by Emir Kusturica, the well-known director of movies such as "Remember Dolly Bell?", "Dad's on a Business Trip" and "Underground". Presented at the Berlin Film Festival in 1993, the movie won the Silver Bear. It is a melancholic legend, a dreamlike tale in which characters fly, the carcass of an old Cadillac becomes a monument and the aspiration to be an actor is pursued by memorising dialogue from Scorsese's films. The girls want to die, incredulous boys are tolerant, and the American dream is no longer a collective momentum but only individual, fragile and disconnected hopes, ready to turn into mild delirium. The movie was shot entirely in the United States by the visionary director with an inflamed, ironic and lyrical style. The movie's protagonist is Axel Blackmar (Johnny Depp), a boy who works at the Department of Fish and Game in New York and dreams of living in Alaska with the Eskimos. On the occasion of his uncle Leo's (Jerry Lewis) wedding, a Cadillac salesman who wants to reach the moon in a pile of cars, Axel returns to Arizona to be best man at the wedding. There he meets Elaine (Faye Dunaway), an extravagant widow who killed her husband and lives with her young, neurotic daughter Grace (Lili Taylor). Axel falls in love with Elaine and moves to her farm, where he builds a rudimentary flying machine with the help of Paul (Vincent Gallo), an aspiring actor friend of Leo's.