Blue Bus is one of the most delightful and engaging films I have seen in a very long time. It is a uniquely intelligent, funny and touching tale that kept my attention wrapped from beginning to end. Like two other favorite independent films of mine, "Once" and "Frozen River" I found this film to be in a league of it's own, high above the standards of most Hollywood formulaic pictures. It is, in a word, refreshing. My hat is off to the filmmakers for creating a film that has it's own distinctive voice and has something substantive to say about the importance of one of our best assets in life, our friends.
Augie and Joe are two middle aged guys who are both lost in their own way. Adding to that they are both stuck in being stubbornly and unabashedly the way they are. As they travel together on a road trip from LA to New Orleans, they unwittingly transform the other. This is not always pleasant for either of them, but is wonderful to witness as an audience member. You get the feeling you are spying on two very earnest and opposite guys who are fumbling to find their way out of their own personal limitations. Through some hilarious and heartfelt twists and turns, they both rub off on the other and forge an endearing bond that will make you appreciate the importance of rumbling through the ups and downs of life with your own friends and how that rumbling shapes us all for the better.
The scenery itself is worth the price of admission, but even more than that, the music will make you bop in your seat. In the end however, it is the unspoken love and transformation the two characters take because of each other that will grab your heart.
This is the kind of film that will stay with you for days after you see it.
Augie and Joe are two middle aged guys who are both lost in their own way. Adding to that they are both stuck in being stubbornly and unabashedly the way they are. As they travel together on a road trip from LA to New Orleans, they unwittingly transform the other. This is not always pleasant for either of them, but is wonderful to witness as an audience member. You get the feeling you are spying on two very earnest and opposite guys who are fumbling to find their way out of their own personal limitations. Through some hilarious and heartfelt twists and turns, they both rub off on the other and forge an endearing bond that will make you appreciate the importance of rumbling through the ups and downs of life with your own friends and how that rumbling shapes us all for the better.
The scenery itself is worth the price of admission, but even more than that, the music will make you bop in your seat. In the end however, it is the unspoken love and transformation the two characters take because of each other that will grab your heart.
This is the kind of film that will stay with you for days after you see it.