Philip French 

Bombay Beach – review

An impressionistic portrait of life in a Californian desert slum makes an impressive documentary debut, writes Philip French
  
  

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Residents of Bombay Beach. Photograph: PR

This feature debut by the Israeli photographer and installation artist Alma Har'el is an impressionistic, poetic portrait of down-and-outers living lives of desperation in a desert slum in inland California. A compelling, highly self-conscious documentary, it's involving, mystifying, unpatronising and carefully orchestrated.

 

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