Some of the smaller independent movies I particularly enjoyed, ones like Broken Flowers with Bill Murray, deserve a mention.

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She knows instantly that Cole has broken off a spray of flowers to bring to her as an offering.

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Beginning the rounds of Nurpur Harouni on his itinerant mornings, summoned to a broken pump, Nawab and his bicycle bumped along, decorative plastic flowers swaying on wires sprouting from the frame.

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