I loved it. The images are so perfect that i can forget any flaws.
His movies are usually so mad and irregular that people are sent into wild states of polarity. Some people think his shit stinks.
I’m definitely gonna watch it. I saw Gummo last night and I was jealous that he made a movie that brutal and real.
Film can be anything. I loved Mister Lonely. The critics didn’t, but their mind is trained to critically assess film based on traditional narrative structure, dramatic arcs, etc.
I’ll admit that Mister Lonely is not flawless.
But let’s consider this: Nuns sky-dive, with BMX bikes, from a plane that Herzog is piloting.
There is such a thing as a good Harmony Korine film? Gummo brutal and real? What cut of this film did you see? Sorry I find his work third rate and infantile.
I was a bit disappointed by Mister Lonely….. I think some of the script had the vitality of previous films, but a lot of the images were too…. stately…… too reserved. That said, it was still superior to about 95% of what has been in theaters for the past few years.
There was just a laziness to the editing that sucked the life out of it as compared with Julien Donkey-Boy and Gummo, both masterpieces according to my way of thinking.
I was a bit disappointed by Mister Lonely….. I think some of the script had the vitality of previous films, but a lot of the images were too…. stately…… too reserved. That said, it was still superior to about 95% of what has been in theaters for the past few years.
There was just a laziness to the editing that sucked the life out of it as compared with Julien Donkey-Boy and Gummo, both masterpieces according to my way of thinking.
Julien Donkey-Boy a masterpiece? One of the worst films I have ever seen. Terrible. If Korine has any talent it doesn’t lie in filmmaking but in conning people into thinking he has talent.
Mister Lonely is quite good. Less adramatic narrative than a conceptual art piece it succeeds where Matthew Barney’s vasaline vanities fail.
Steve doesn’t like Harmony Korine.
I guess that’s a given. I know that no matter how much I dislike a film there’s someone who loves it and vice versa. Be boring if we all agreed. Just reading Sight & Sounds listings of best films. One critic from Iran loved Mamma Mia and another critic liked The Happening. So go figure.
I’d be interested to know what that particular critic has to say about The Happening. And, obviously, I do personally like Korine quite a bit. But I think his talent lies in creating images more than anything else, viz. writing (case in point: I think Kids is terrible). His films work partly on account of his choice of cinematographers, and partly on account of his strange, unhinged imagination.
I liked Mister Lonely, but it is not Gummo, nor is it Julien Donkey-Boy. Loving one Korine film does not imply you will love the others.
The only thing Harmony Korine has done that was any good was the Herzog/nuns subplot of Mister Lonely, which was exquisite…but wrapped inside an awful film.
Mr. Lonely is just like his other films, only difference is the style here is more pop polish and not dogme-ish. That surprised me, I liked the film as mch as his others, overall very pleasing, there’s parts that bore and parts that were astonishing (just seeing Herzog is astonishing). Um, it’s a cool film, I need to see it again to get it on a symbolic level, I just took it at first as an absurd story.
I just watched this film and i am pretty open person who usually undestands obscure films like this one, however…Mister Lonely was pointless and boring. the first half seemd promising, until they got to the castle and all was downhill from there.
Nicolas
I saw Mister Lonely 2 or 3 times. I’m a Harmony Korine fan, i love Gummo, Kids and Ken Park. Mister Lonely is a very stranger object and it maybe loose its personnality after some time because it is too original. Or Korine wants to feel too different. I don’t really know what to think about it, i liked the image treatement (sorry if it is not the good word, my english is not really good). Korine is making a reflexion on the icones of the 80s, and he does it well, for an hour, then… i don’t know.
Is there some fans of Mister Lonely?