The 40-minute conversation with Franco that followed the screening was, at first, as frustrating as the film.
What starts out as slow, meditative, lyrical and impressionistic eventually becomes an endurance test of sorts - a brave, bold experiment that plays like something between an intellectual exercise and an aimless mess. The problem is that even with those two conversation-starting scenes, 'The Broken Tower' is going to be a tough sit for many viewers.
