Mister Lonely (2007)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 38
Less biting or offensive than Korine's earlier works, this frustratingly dull film still maintains the director's trademark odd beauty.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 14
Less biting or offensive than Korine's earlier works, this frustratingly dull film still maintains the director's trademark odd beauty.
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When a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in Paris falls for a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton) during a performance at a retirement home, the lovestruck pair retreats to a seaside castle in the Scottish highlands populated by a commune of reclusive impersonators. Earning a living can be a difficult endeavor in the City of Lights, and in order to make ends meet, one man has turned to mimicking the King of Pop. One day, while doing the moonwalk in an old folks home,
May 22, 2007 Wide
Nov 18, 2008
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Diego Luna
Michael Jackson -
Samantha Morton
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Denis Lavant
Charlie Chaplin -
James Fox
The Pope -
Melita Morgan
Madonna -
Anita Pallenberg
The Queen -
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Jason Pennycooke
Sammy Davis Jr. -
Richard Strange
Abraham Lincoln -
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Esme Creed-Miles
Shirley Temple -
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Werner Herzog
Father Umbrillo -
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Korine has found an evocative subject, but he remains entirely too cavalier in this attitude towards narrative coherence.
Top CriticIn contrast to the grimy and occasionally grotesque Gummo (1997) and Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), this drama has a more gentle, Felliniesque feel.
The film doesn't work, and indeed seems to have no clear idea of what its job is, and yet (sigh) there is the temptation to forgive its trespasses simply because it is utterly, if pointlessly, original.
A movie that goes to extraordinary lengths to say ordinary things.
Korine falls so thoroughly in love with many of his images, including his opening shot, that he stretches them out in hypnotic slow motion.
Like Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth, the film has overarching problems yet contains diamonds of clarity and inspiration that you won't find in any dozen movies. You'll have to mine for those diamonds, though.
Curdles into fanciful obscurantism
A colony of kooks where James Dean, Lincoln, Chaplin, Buckwheat, The Three Stooges and Little Red Riding Hood wannabes run amok in an Eldorado of wackos without ever quite losing their sanity, speaks euphorically to the many paths to personal liberation.
Once the novelty of all the celebrity impersonations wears off, the film never gives you much of a reason to care about the predicaments of its cardboard characters.
It's movies like this that the art house was made for.
A bore.
The film, more ant farm than movie, seems like a lazy effort from a talent who has lost his edge.
This film may be Korine's most accessible as a director, featuring characters, images, and situations that are stirring and unforgettable -- even if they don't add up to a complete narrative or visual whole.
Fails to achieve any kind of cumulative meaning outside of Korine's private amusement.
The film has a delicate and deliberate pace. While all the characters could be assigned symbolic motivations, most just seem like annoying and self-indulgent jokes within director Harmony Korine's eccentric point of view.
Mister Lonely falls into the 'art house' category of film, and you can multiply that by 100.
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