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2 February 2008 (Japan) morePlot:
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 Temple. | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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Verges on excellent, but not in a Korine-like fashion. more (23 total)Cast
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In an interview with a newspaper in his hometown of Nashville, Tenn., Harmony Korine stated that he made several trips to Iceland to scout locations for the film. He ended up ditching that idea altogether and shooting the film in Scotland and France. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: The shape of the nuns' parachutes are visible as they are falling from the plane. moreQuotes:
Michael 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 better than myself... moreFAQ
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Mister Lonely has some great, weird moments. It has some beautiful moments. The problem is, all of that is bogged down in a sea of sentimentality and, as odd as it is for a Korine film, normalcy. As a result, this film swings between fantastic and mediocre.
The film follows two different plot-lines, which thankfully don't converge in the least; one follows a commune of celebrity impersonators and the other focuses on nuns...that's all I'll say about that one so as not to ruin it for you all. The key to enjoying it is to separate yourself from the sappiness and focus on the way Korine wrings out such emotion from even the most bizarre images. The most poignant part to my mind is when the Stooges kill the sheep. So wacky, yet so effective that it nearly brought tears to my eyes. Keep an eye out for these moments, as you will be duly rewarded: many not only evoke the old Korine, but even reach a Tarkovsky-esquire level of transcendentalism, such as the scene with Little Red Riding Hood singing on the tracks or the nuns dancing in the rain.
But, as I said, there are also too many scenes of emo existentialism, more reminiscent of The Wrestler than anything else, or melodramatic scenes that feel more at home in a Sirk film than in a Korine one, despite the fact that the participants are dressed as Monroe and Chaplin. The whole first quarter of the film is disconcertingly straight-forward, so much so, in fact, that I was tempted to make sure I had put the right DVD in.
The true highlights of the film are almost entirely found in the nun narrative, a fable about the power of faith and the danger of arrogance, which features all-around badass Werner Herzog as a somewhat deranged Catholic priest in Central or South America. These segments are so weird, so utterly imaginative, that they almost make up for the lacking portions. The ending of this storyline, ironic yet nearly inevitable, is far and away the film's best scene.
The fact that Korine constructed a melancholy, pensive film about celebrity look-alikes is impressive in and of itself, so I give it a nine out of ten. Besides, I can't help liking a film that includes the line, "I'm Abe F-ckin' Lincoln."