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Plot:
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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MCT:July 13, 2008Is there an audience for movies like Harmony Korine's "julien donkey-boy"? I hope so. It's a beautiful piece of anti-pop art, brimming with life in all its fragmented glory. The arthouse crowd has become over-infatuated with aboveground indie thoroughfare "Juno," etc. Give me Godard, Cassavetes, and yteah, even Korine.
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MCT:June 10, 2008I wish I could watch every movie ever made but I sadly don't have the time. I'm not interested in this movie because I don't think I'll like it or don't know enough about it to think I might like it. I may still end up seeing it some day though.
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MCT:May 12, 2008
A masterpiece in filmmaking. Bremner, Sevigny and Herzog make up what is virtually a perfeect cast. People have called it pretentious because is is shot on budget digital, but it is living proof that you can create a fantastic film on virtually no budget. obviously this film did have a budget, but it is proof all the same. And this features one of the best Korine cripples; the lucky armless drummer.
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MCT:February 1, 2008Ewen Bremner is unbelievably good. Original and effective construction by Korine and yeah, Herzog is funny as hell. Eternity chaos.
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MCT:October 10, 2007
This is my favorite harmony korine film to date. The cinematography id the most original I have ever witnessed. I felt mentally deranged halfway through this movie.
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MCT:August 23, 2007
Does the "hey guys, let's make our movies look shitty" Dogme manifesto colour this movie terrible? Nope. It's beautiful, and depressing. Werner Herzog is definitely the best part of the film.
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Yep, Harmony Korine included his favourite director Werner Herzog in this film. Crappy quality, but thats the point.
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MCT:June 30, 2007
A messy jumble of life as seen through the eyes of a schizophrenic man named Julien. A touching tragedy, if you can handle some of the disturbing sequences. A lot of people disliked this film, knocking it for being an incoherent, pretentious mess, but I found meaning quite easily in the chaos. Very artistic, excellent movie. Hats off to Harmony Korine.
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MCT:June 24, 2007Harmony Korine does it again. Frightening, hilarious and jaw-dropping. The first American dogma film. Herzog is along for the ride too.
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MCT:June 4, 2007
The movie about Harmony Korines paranoid-schizofrenic uncle is a journey through pain. dont get me wrong, the movie is fantastic, but it gets under your skin.
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MCT:May 31, 2007
This one is way way off the beaten path... it's a completely one of a kind film about an autistic man (plot on flixster is off)... and it basically just explores his life. I found it fascinating, but saying that it is odd is an understatement... get ready for a wierd and uncomfortable movie in so many ways. I think this is worth a rent alone for the fact that it is such a novel film. Check it out.
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MCT:April 13, 2007Very art house style, but the look and feel gets old fast and the uncomprehensible story doesn't grab you either, the acting however isn't bad and some charechters will grow on you.
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MCT:March 13, 2007
Ewan Bremner, Werner Herzog, Chloe Sevigny . . . what's NOT to like?! Besides that you have Harmony Korine w/ a superb script based on his unle's life as a schizophrenic.
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MCT:March 3, 2007
I urge people to see this film. Don't be discouraged by the first 20 minutes, read a few reviews before hand (especially Ebert) however do not give up on this. It is a well documented piece of film which studies a dysfunctional family in their fragmented life. Each character has their own unique brand of irrational behaviour however it's Bremner's Julien character which is the MNA. Being a schizophrenic is portrayed in the film as frightening and by the end it just wraps itself into a truly haunting representation.
Because it looks like a semi-documentary or home video, it just appears scary and worrisome. As Ebert mentions in his review "what's tragic about a film like this is the audience knows this is fictional, all the while real families have to put up with this behaviour all the time" Or something along those lines. -
MCT:February 20, 2007
Korine starts to hone his skills of directing in his second installment of a warped and twisted mind. The interview included on the dvd states that this film is a semi-biographical story about his uncle Eddie. Hard to imagine. Don't know how, but he managed to snag a few well known stars to help translate his ideas. There is plenty random scenes of insanity and a side of life that most are blind to. Favorite parts: The black albino straight from Alabama and the dude that plays drums with his legs. He wears a freaking watch on his ankle. That is crazy!
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MCT:January 17, 2007
beautiful,cold, sad.
just gave me a feeling I can't explain. They way they have managed to make this film look like we see the world from the eyes of a spizophrenic, is brilliant.I have never seen someone act scizophrenic that good before. -
MCT:January 16, 2007
Bremner is brilliant. He was completely convincing. Almost as if this were a documentary. He just acts so completely mentally ill, it's amazing. He even somehow affects not only the dress, but the postures, facial expressions and characteristics that make him appear to be mentally ill.
I found this movie completely watchable and also I found it to have a strong emotional core. The emotion in this film is really something. Everyone in the film was great and played perfect. The editing is amazing and the camerawork really gives an intense visual experience. There were many great shots and scenes in this film but the one scene that I liked the most was toward the end. When they are all ice skating and they are all so happy. Then in some parts the camera is put right on they're faces and you can see how happy they all are skating. That scene gave me such a good feeling like no other film has. -
MCT:June 20, 2006Really interesting cinematography. I highly recommend to see it just for that reason. Otherwise, ho-hum.
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MCT:May 29, 2006Chaotic, disorienting.
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MCT:April 25, 2006
The user opinions are precisely what I expected. The great divide between those who think this movie is brilliant, and those who view it as a piece of shit. Personally, I cannot be torn from the improvisational honesty of this movie. It is brilliant in the sense that, its a new hybrid between artistry, and directing. It blurs what was once expected from a movie. Expected or not, this strange experimentation should not be done any more by Harmony, as viewers are linking Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy as essentially the same concept.
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