FailedImitator
24May12
Had the exact same experience.
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FailedImitator
24May12
Recently saw it again, and I loved it a lot more than I did the first time around. Oh so beautiful!
meancreek
3Jan12
Hated this on first viewing, loved it on second. Imaginative and powerful with strong performances all round. Incredible.
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Canaletto
13Jun11
Esto es estar carbon, despues de sus enfermos y esquizofrenicos trabajos, dar un salto y entrar a las limitaciones "convencionales" y salir triunfador. Korine primero que nada es un cinefilo apasionado, es obvio por la cantidad de influencias y "homenajes" que se destilan en sus peliculas (especial mención al final de "Killing of a chinese bookie" en la obra teatral de la comuna, asi como su cine observacional e improvisado; escenas de paisajes contemplativos a la Terrance Malick, entre muchas otras) nunca dejando por un lado su originalidad y juego de generos. En esta cinta, el homenaje principal es al movimiento Frances "Cinema du look" (vaya, la cinta es filmada en Francia) en boga en los 80s y mas huevudo que contar con la participación de Leos Carax (su mayor representante) y de su alter-ego Denis Lavant (simbolos inconfundibles del movimiento). Movimiento, que al igual que Mister Lonely, son pura fantochada, el típico ejemplo de estilo sobre contenido, donde la narrativa (como es comun en Korine) no vale madres, y los personajes son siempre alienados y marginados, la mezcla de "high art" y cultura pop. Como nunca falta el critico cerrado y mamila que primero exige al artista salir del tedio convencional y cuando se topa con algo tan único (por lo menos en Norte America) como con el trabajo de Korine se la hacen de pedo tachándolo de irreverente y sin sentido, quien chingados los entiende.
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Nicole Elmer
19May11
Weird but lovable. Like an old stuffed panda with a missing arm and a spot of dried vomit left over there by your younger brother.
X.A. Coronel
16Mar11
Why do you people demand destinations to ideas! why do they need to go somewhere? wtf does that even mean! they are in motion, that's sufficient. That is development, not developed.
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ConallVision
16Apr11
A think a film has to say something, no matter how big or small. Up until after the performance nothing actually changes in therms of plot or the characters. It becomes boring quickly and feels pointless. I think the film redeems itself at the end with Diego Luna's character self realisation. I think that should have featured more prominently from much earlier on.
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Egodzilla
29Jan11
That was Herzog, yes. And it's not his first in Korines films ... I agree with all said below, but it somehow didn't bother me this time. I even enjoyed all the loose ends in a way. Maybe I'm getting tired of coherency, but then again, it might also be only the friday night hangover ...
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FailedImitator
4Oct10
It's... err... well. I really don't know.This is my first Korine film. I like how it looked, and how promising it seemed in the beginning. But somewhere between the castle and the nuns and the sick sheep, it lost me.
Armina Stepan
15Aug10
quite subtle and lovable characters - raises expectations about the end but doesn't deliver.
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GoggledMouse
23Apr10
Even the charisma of Werner Herzog cannot save this pointless, dull movie. I don't care if it was meant to be pointless or sporadic, it was absolute torture to sit through all the indulgence of Harmony Korine. Probably the ideas for both of the stories came up during a marijuana filled discussion, but it was too late for Korine to realize that he had streched the jokes too far. On the plus side, there are a few good shots, but that's about it.
Olivia Hellder
1Apr10
It´s an uncomfortable film, bitter but with the extremely harsh and truthful on the one hand I like the depth of the main characters, not seen in most films in non-commercial and commercial, the story it tells is pretty good Korine to my taste, is a lesson in good cinema.
CountBruga
16Jan10
Staggeringly pointless. The most poignant aspect was my permanent frown reflected in the laptop screen. Unfortunately being stuck in a travelodge and having paid 5 euro I was obliged to watch the entirety. By the time Samantha Morton does the decent thing I too was searching about for a sturdy hook. Anybody who thinks this is art, and not a string of back of the napkin nonsense, is entirely deluded.