Brown Bunny, The (2003)

reviewed by
Jon Popick

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"We Put the SIN in Cinema"

Here's the thing I don't get about Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny. All

anyone talks about when discussing the film is Roger Ebert and curses

involving cancer. Hello? It's a movie where an Oscar nominee gives a guy a

real blowjob right there on the screen. And she keeps the change, too.

Cancer, shmancer.

Just to set the record straight, the lousy reception Bunny received at

Cannes 2003 was due, in part, to the film being unfinished - it ran two

hours and was blown up from VHS to 35mm. The version you'll see in theatres

is nearly 30 minutes shorter, and its visual quality is vastly improved.

For some people, that might not be enough, since Bunny is, essentially, 90

minutes of a guy (Gallo) driving across the country to get the

aforementioned hummer (from Chloë Sevigny). Sure, the trip is interrupted

occasionally while the guy makes out with various women who are all named

after flowers (including Cheryl Tiegs), but it's mostly about the road.

God help me for saying this, but the blowjob scene was the worst part of

Bunny. I thought the film really worked until Bud finally met up with

Daisy. It had a Kiarostami-directing-The Hired Hand kind of look and feel

to it. And like Hand, maybe Bunny will be looked at in a much more

favorable light in 25 years.

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Brown Bunny, The (2003)

reviewed byJon Popick

reviewed by
Jon Popick