Yep,

That's yer one chance to sea Bourque's Lounge in Lewisburg. I went there a year after the film was shot and spoke to the other. She's the one who gets him a beer and then finds him gone...

But yeah, typical Euro movie. Weird for the sake of weird.

A bit on the artsy side I guess!

All in all, I've seen worse movies...
Say, was part of that shot in Holly Beach? The part where there is a band rehearsing on a porch?
And....given that he almost collapsed at the Rock'n'Bowl.....why didn't they get him to a hospital, duh? That was the part that really irritated me.

I was there at rock and bowl when they were shooting the
movie. I think zydeco force was playing. I might even be
in the movie dancing with my wife.

I haven't seen it yet....it keeps getting pushing down in my netfilx queue. Mark

Foreign flicks are always a mixed bag, but I like the artsy spin on most of 'em -- being a graphic designer, myself.

I thought it was interesting that the lick he heard on the radio was played on a Cajun box and he learned it on the piano accordion. That made me grin.

There were times when I thought the movie was pokin' fun at zydeco, but of course -- in an artsy way...

R!CK

Yes some parts stretched the limit of credibility, but it was charming. Kinda sad though, for the look it cast back on german old-time culture....while romanticizing the foreign louisiana culture

the holly beach part made me really sad 'cause i had stood right by that house with the porch and to think nothing exists there anymore fills me with strong emotions.......
roger

what was sad is the dude died!!! Do you think it was the Gumbo or whatever that lady made on the house boat!!

I would think that a lifetime of German food would build the kind of fortitude that would allow him to handle anyone's gumbo...
Seriously, though, while I won't argue anything that's been said about the pacing of the movie, etc. For me the bottom line was that it moved me. Here was a guy who is near the end of his life. But he hears something beautiful from far away. He falls in love with it wholeheartedly, and despite the ridicule of his peers, and he goes for it, admittedly in a halfassed sort of way. Good for him! It reminds me of a poem by Bertolt Brecht where he says something to the effect that there is always time for a fresh start....even with your last breath.