Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog
Flashing a mouthful of fake gold teeth, Julien (Ewen Bremner) wanders the streets of New York City, mumbling nonsensical syllables to himself. He tries to avoid the abuse of his sadistic drunken gas-m...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 20, 2001
Stats: 342 reviews
A little pretentious I think but very entertaining! Bremner & Herzog made it for me with their fantastic performances. I just wish it concentrated more on character than on fancy camera work, as beautiful as it was, sometimes it was a bit headache inducing. Watch as a piece of ar...( read more)
The film is purposefully difficult. After all I can imagine it being pretty impossible to display cinematically the effects of schizophrenia, no matter how good a performance. There is a great performance from the whole cast, I especially enjoyed Herzog's bizarre father figure. T...( read more)
"I'm a black albino, straight from Alabama" -Victor Varnado
Harmony based the main character on an uncle of his who was a schizophrenic. This is pretty dark, even for Korine. Dysfunction is the name of the game. Here's a rundown: Ewen Bremmer as a shizo son with gold fronts...( read more)
few good sequences, but seriously.... it was boring. No, i dont care what you think, I m not pretending to like that movie just because I want to seduce some kind of intellectual movie fans. But you re right, the actors are good, and the whole dogma (is it ?) fake shitty esthetis...( read more)
I love being disturbed by movies, really, and I love good performances, which this film had only good performances, and I loved the look and the whole Dogma style... I just don't like being bored and uninterested.
excellently directed.
"hello. this adolf. he ate my mothers titties. hes a good friend. he ate my mothers titties."
Oh, wow. I was pretty put off to be honest. I liked what I saw, but I had a hard time stomaching the whole film. I'll have to try again sometime.
Incredibly intense movie. Julien Donkey-Boy does not attempt to soften the edges around mental illness -- Julien is presented as a startling realistic schizophrenic. This is helped in part due to the way in which this film was shot -- some of it captured through hidden video came...( read more)
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