Article: `Arizona Dream' loses itself in mirage of importance

ARIZONA DREAM

Directed by: Emir Kusturica

Screenplay by: Kusturica, David Atkins

Starring: Johnny Depp, Lili Taylor, Faye Dunaway, Paulina

Porizkova, Jerry Lewis

At: Harvard Film Archive

Unrated

(This is an expanded version of the review published here

when this film premiered at last year's Boston Film

Festival.)

"Arizona Dream" is a very special kind of disaster, the kind that only comes from an esteemed European director set loose in the United States with a cast and a budget and absolutely no destination in mind. It yanks Johnny Depp from a fish warden's job in New York back to the desert, where his uncle Leo, played by Jerry Lewis, wants him to assume the ...

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