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In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
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Part fairy tale, part dream parade...Brilliantly bold...Beautiful. --The Daily Telegraph
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Harmony Korine makes (all too few!) bizarre, mesmerizing, stunning, moving, loving, stylish, funny, startling films. This, the latest, contains one of the most breath-taking feats of filmmaking (and acting) I have ever seen. I don't want to spoil it by saying any more about what that scene might be but you will know immediately upon watching the film because it will be the one that makes you gasp and shake your head in disbelief, pinch yourself to ensure you ain't slipped into a dream.
Featuring Diego ("Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN") Luna and Samantha ("Sweet and Lowdown" Morton") as Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe impersonators respectively, the film studies, observes and orchestrates a group of impersonators who live in a commune in the highlands. The characters shuffle about, moving from mood to mood, enticement to enticement to disappointment to great imaginative fulfillment. It is a bored film in some ways and an enraptured film in other ways.
It has received some dreadful reviews and I'm prepared to be paint-balled for positively reviewing this, but I think the detractors are ungiving, ungenerous and cruel.
Featuring Diego ("Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN") Luna and Samantha ("Sweet and Lowdown" Morton") as Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe impersonators respectively, the film studies, observes and orchestrates a group of impersonators who live in a commune in the highlands. The characters shuffle about, moving from mood to mood, enticement to enticement to disappointment to great imaginative fulfillment. It is a bored film in some ways and an enraptured film in other ways.
It has received some dreadful reviews and I'm prepared to be paint-balled for positively reviewing this, but I think the detractors are ungiving, ungenerous and cruel.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Mesmerising, funny, sad. You feel manipulated and abused by this fantasia but my god if only other films manipulated and abused us with such wit and - strangely - genuine humanity and feeling.
A Michel Jackson impersonator meets a Marilyn Monroe while performing a bizarre routine in a Retirement Home (a scene both hilarious and genuinely touching as he gets the bored residents of the Home exited and then has them chanting that they will not die) and returns with her to the Commune of Impersonators that she lives with in the Highlands of Scotland.
This is twinned with the story of a group of Nuns led by a rather manic priest (brilliantly played by Werner Herzog) who discover they can fly.
The film has an all too bitter twist and a genuinely moving scene involving talking hand painted eggs not to mention the breath taking and exhilarating images of free falling nuns riding on BMX bikes.
Strange, mesmerising, beautifull, cruel and incredibly funny.
Add to this the brilliant film score by Sun City Girls and J. Spaceman (the drummer for Sun City Girls died during the recording of the soundtrack and this adds to the film's sadness) and it's an indispensable slice of weirdness.
'Sometimes I look at you and you're more like Adolf Hitler than Charlie Chaplin.'
A Michel Jackson impersonator meets a Marilyn Monroe while performing a bizarre routine in a Retirement Home (a scene both hilarious and genuinely touching as he gets the bored residents of the Home exited and then has them chanting that they will not die) and returns with her to the Commune of Impersonators that she lives with in the Highlands of Scotland.
This is twinned with the story of a group of Nuns led by a rather manic priest (brilliantly played by Werner Herzog) who discover they can fly.
The film has an all too bitter twist and a genuinely moving scene involving talking hand painted eggs not to mention the breath taking and exhilarating images of free falling nuns riding on BMX bikes.
Strange, mesmerising, beautifull, cruel and incredibly funny.
Add to this the brilliant film score by Sun City Girls and J. Spaceman (the drummer for Sun City Girls died during the recording of the soundtrack and this adds to the film's sadness) and it's an indispensable slice of weirdness.
'Sometimes I look at you and you're more like Adolf Hitler than Charlie Chaplin.'
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Mister Lonely from the same director behind Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, and Trash Humpers, to name the films I've seen. The story is original, but not all that entertaining. Its about a Michael Jackson look-alike, who meets a Marilyn Monroe look-alike while performing in an old peoples home. The pair head to a commune, w...here Charlie Chaplin, The Queen of England, Madonna, James Dean, and various other look-alikes live. They build a stage, and all of about 6 people show up to watch them perform. Blind faith works for a while, but ultimately they have to face reality, which is ultimately bleak for the majority. Not the most uplifting film in the world. Gummo still rates as Harmony Korine's best film, and even that takes some watching.
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