I love this movie so much

Good concept, poorly executed.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

A movie about an alcoholic's everyday life. Watched it randomly on tv, and it's good. It's Buscemi's directorial and writer debut and he did a pretty good job. If you like calm movies or if you like Busemi movies, you should watch it.

A very good debut by writer/director Steve Buscemi, "Trees Lounge" stars Buscemi himself as a bug-eyed alcoholic who mourns the loss of his lover and child. Would his life have been better had he made less mistakes? With whom does blame lie? Can he change? Comprised of a series of sensitively sketched vignettes, "Trees Lounge" mostly finds Buscemi perched atop barstools, nursing booze, sucking on cigarettes or snorting cocaine; anything to escape a life he despises. Elsewhere he strikes up a relationship with a young woman, played by the ethereal Chloe Sevigny. Buscemi's aims may be modest, but his film does well to capture a tone of melancholia and regret. "Trees Lounge" unfolds like a Tom Waits record, or perhaps the boozy laments of a Raymond Carver or Charles Bukowski.7.9/10 – Worth one viewing. See "Ghost World" and Dan Rush's "Everything Must Go".

This is a tale of a jobless deceitful Tommy Basilio who never took anything seriously in his life, including himself. Therefore he lost his love and present, lost having a dream or a tomorrow. At one moment he says "Everybody is lost. But nobody says that about himself !" That guy lives above a bar, (and in it !). After 8 years of affair, his girl goes to his boss; who deserves her more, since he achieves himself, and planed his tomorrow. Now we follow the features of that 40 year old teen's aberration; a caprice with a teen girl that equals his adolescence, being too cowered to admit that he's a loser, his torn connections with everybody, his incapacity to have any kind of balanced human relationship.. So that's why he begged a touch of hand from the girl who danced with him (who drunkenly slept before requesting any physical love from her side).The movie managed to embody the statues of some people from that loser town as well; the dancing woman is unhappily married, the company's owner – who goes constantly to the bar – is irresponsible towards his wife and kids,.. etc. As you see, everybody is a drunken adolescent who has no hope for getting out of their stalemate or that town, along with those rotten invariable values; such as negativism, laziness and separation, that they imprisoned themselves in.The funniest thing is the lead's transforming at the end to a twin for the old drunken man who used to sit in the bar for all the time like a corpse. It insinuated that he'll meet the same fate; turning into a lonely aged, no talker no listener, frozen sot who "Will wake up someday, not breathing !" There are some clever scenes. 2 of them are unforgettable. The first is when the lead's ex-lover was re-watching his old home video. Look how the movie's camera goes beyond the TV's screen, to live the good memories. Maybe because the frivolous past of a character like Tommy is his present and future. Or maybe because these memories have some hot feelings that still alive inside that tape, and that lover who deplores Tommy as lost or determined on being lost.The second scene is when the lead sees his ex-love after giving birth to a baby. He understood there that he can't push the time back to win what he resolved to lose. And that the baby isn't his son; whether due to how he can't give life, even for himself !, or due to the fact that that baby would never have a life under his dead tree. This is surely the best climax for this movie. So when you read the tagline : "a story about one man's search... for who knows what.", you'll easily understand that his search is for an escape, away from his irresponsible self, or admitting it.I knew (Steve Buscemi) first as an extra in (Pulp Fiction), then as an always scary psychopath killer in movies like (Con Air) and (Some Things to Do in Denver When You Are Dead). To an extent that in 1999, when Empire magazine published a reportage about the best 100 movies in history, the icon that they used to define the degree of bloodiness in every movie was a face so similar to his! So imagine my surprise to witness how he can act, write, and direct something distinct, serene, and not bloody such as this.I just hated the poster's line "Black Comedy". Clearly the term "Drama" is unprofitable or unpopular in America of the last decades ! There was no need for such a lie or for hiring big name like (Samuel L. Jackson) to do a useless cameo either. But these were some ways to market the movie in a market that mostly doesn't welcome anything except the holy : action and comedy flicks ! As a direction it's astonishingly simple and sensitively done. (Buscemi) did it without one second of allegation or exhausting technique. And as a script; it's subtle, bitter and enjoyable study for the anti-hero. In other words, sometimes a short novel bewitches me. Here's one of them.

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, that was maybe abit generous. Anyway this film is one which i caught watching on British TV. I missed the first 20 mins of the film, so I'm looking for it it the shops to buy.This film was an excellent watch and Steve Buscemi should be given respect as this is as far as i know was his first film hes directed. Whats really great about this film, is there is no obvious plot it just flows. It is also quite funny but I think its much more of a drama. Samuel L Jackson and Mimi Rodgers also are in this film(probably supporting there friends first directed film). Chloe sevigny who plays debbie in this film offers some sexual tension in an ice cream van with Tommy (Steve Buscemi)that scene stays in the memory and the on screen chemistry between them is great.I'm quite rubbish at writing reviews, but this is good stuff and well worth a watch. :)