Mister Lonely
Anita Pallenberg, Denis Lavant, Diego Luna
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Tem...( read more
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June 4, 2009If you're a movie (picture yourself as a movie), and you're slow-paced and quiet (picture everybody yawning), then I'll definitely love you to death (picture me loving you, with a smile on my face) and I won't, I repeat, I won't be bored.
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January 8, 2009"I don't know if you know what it is like to want to be someone else, to not want to look like you look, to hate your own face and to go completely unnoticed. I have always wanted to be someone else. I have never felt comfortable the way I am. All I want is to be better than m... ...( read more )
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December 30, 2008Michael Jackson: "I don't know if you know what it is like to want to be someone else, to not want to look like you look, to hate your own face and to go completely unnoticed. I have always wanted to be someone else. I have never felt comfortable the way I am. All I want is to be... ...( read more )
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October 23, 2008Well, it's been 8 years since Harmony Korine made a film. The last time we saw him was in Julien Donkey-Boy, before that Gummo. Both those movies passed through eyes of which the majority had no understanding. Roger Ebert, in his review of Julien Donkey Boy, referred to Korine as... ...( read more )
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May 30, 2008Harmony Korine has made his first film after his underrated Gummo and his underwhelming Julien-Donkey-Boy. While Mister Lonely is his most mature work to date you just wish that after 10 years that Korine would have picked up a camera a bit more cause he's gotten a bit rusty.
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May 30, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
May 23, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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 tho... full review
May 2, 2008
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Occasionally there is a striking image or a moment of wounded sweetness, but mainly the film provides ample proof that it's possible to be bizarre and boring at the same time. full review
April 30, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press
Mister Lonely is an offshoot of our celebrity-mad culture, like the National Enquirer morphing into The Maury Povich Show. full review
April 30, 2008
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
This is undoubtedly a small movie, but it's also more than that: it's a small, imperfect world.
April 28, 2008
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
The film is pretty ramshackle, full of obvious group improvisations that fail to spark and an overdose of bathos. full review
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