According to Ken Tucker, "Broken Flowers relies on Bill Murray's persona, but it also turns that persona back on him. Instead of maintaining the satirical distance that made it easy to laugh at heartland eccentrics in, say, Alexander Payne's About Schmidt, Jarmusch's film avoids caricature, and Murray's poker face melts. Don feels a bittersweet regret at becoming exactly the sort of granite-faced wise guy Bill Murray has made his rep at enshrining. Murray is at a point in his career when his self-effacement has achieved high comic art, and he collaborates with Jarmusch at a point in his career when he's trying to be something more than hipster-serene. Both succeed, by committing to the notion that a yearning to be reborn within a hopeless, brittle soul is worthy of drama—as well as a deeper, gentler humor." Peter Bradshaw called it "Jarmusch's most enjoyable, accessible work for some time, perhaps his most emotionally generous film - like Cronenberg, he has made a bold venture into the mainstream with a movie that creates a gentle cloud of happiness. It is, it must be said, a lot more forgiving about aging men than Alexander Payne's road-movies About Schmidt or Sideways, but it is still a very attractive piece of film-making, bolstered by terrific performances from an all-star cast, spearheaded by endlessly droll, seductively sensitive Bill Murray." Soundtrack The soundtrack to the film features an eclectic mix of music, chiefly using instrumentals by Ethiopian jazz artist Mulatu Astatke as the main score, mixed with garage rock (The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Greenhornes, Holly Golightly), stoner metal (Sleep), soul (Marvin Gaye), rocksteady reggae (The Tennors), and classical (Gabriel Fauré's Requiem). The film's score was composed by Mulatu Astatke. "There Is an End" (Holly Golightly with The Greenhornes) - 3:05 "Yegelle Tezeta" (Mulatu Astatke) - 3:14 "Ride Yu Donkey" (The Tennors) - 2:03 "I Want You" (Marvin Gaye) - 3:57 "Yekermo Sew" (Mulatu Astatke) - 4:03 "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) - 2:49 "Tell Me Now So I Know" (Holly Golightly) - 2:02 Written by Ray Davies "Gubèlyé" (Mulatu Astatke) - 4:35 "Dopesmoker" (Sleep) - 3:57 Abridged version of 63:31-minute track. Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 ("Pie Jesu") (Oxford Camerata) - 3:30 Composed by Gabriel Fauré, fourth of seven-movement work. "Ethanopium" (Dengue Fever) - 4:38 Instrumental, composed by Mulatu Astatke "Unnatural Habitat" (The Greenhornes) - 2:08 Other