Fails to achieve any kind of cumulative meaning outside of Korine's private amusement.
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06/03/08
Mister Lonely (2008)
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Reviews Counted:68
Fresh:31
Rotten:37
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Less biting or offensive than Korine's earlier works, this frustratingly dull film still maintains the director's trademark odd beauty.
Theatrical Release:May 2, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: After the success of indies GUMMO and JULIEN DONKEY-BOY in the late 1990s, writer-director Harmony Korine's follow-up is this dramedy. Diego Luna (Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN) stars as a Michael Jackson... [More]
Starring: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, James Fox
Director: Harmony Korine
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Reviews for Mister Lonely
The film, more ant farm than movie, seems like a lazy effort from a talent who has lost his edge.
06/25/08
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.
06/06/08
Mister Lonely has its moments of wonder and beauty, but the film is obscure by design, and meant to appeal to those who favor the alternative canon of directing greats.
05/01/08
Surreal, whimsical comedy about an island commune of impersonators.
03/14/08
In its slightly comical, somewhat mordant, and completely ambient way, Mister Lonely wonders about the perils of idol worship, the way people can hand their entire selves over to a religion, be it Catholicism or celebrity.
05/09/08
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04/23/09
Mister Lonely is an exercise in transformation, both on and off the screen. Korine has shed his Dogme 95 skin but what kind of filmmaker emerges is not exactly clear.
03/14/08
In contrast to the grimy and occasionally grotesque Gummo (1997) and Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), this drama has a more gentle, Felliniesque feel.
05/30/08
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.
05/30/08
Top CriticKorine falls so thoroughly in love with many of his images, including his opening shot, that he stretches them out in hypnotic slow motion.
05/29/08
"Mister Lonely" is the kind of film you have to work hard to get something out of, but, like the celebrity impersonators at the heart of the film, there's more to it than what you see on the surface.
04/12/08
Curdles into fanciful obscurantism
08/26/09
Think of it as a cinema-of-the-infantile and you'll be better able to stomach the utter boredom that goes along with Korine's prepubescent logic.
04/17/08
He likes to shoot his actors from distances, so that they look a bit like the real McCoys. It's disappointing to find that they're not, but it's also even more intriguing to wonder: who are they, then?
05/15/08
Possibly the worst movie this year... or at least we can hope so.
04/30/08
Beautiful, grotesque, dancing always to their own rhythms.
03/14/08
After eight dark and reclusive years (including drug rehab), enfant terrible Korine is back with a disappointingly slight and whimsical fable about the romance between a Michael Jackson and a Marilyn Monroe impersonators, peppered with skydiving nuns!
05/30/07
It's an endearing enough idea but the film's dark side undermines the charming set-up.
03/14/08
After Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy, the director Harmony Korine evinces a kind of integrity -- he tries never to entertain, and lo, he succeeds.
04/30/08
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