Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely Clips Hit the Web
Say what you will about Harmony Korine, but he is a pretty unique director and I for one am glad we have his warped and twisted visions to look forward to every now and then. But if you thought Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy were outrageous, wait until you get the lowdown on his latest film, Mister Lonely. Perhaps it’s best if he describes it himself: “I started dreaming about nuns flying, falling out of airplanes and praying the whole way down and surviving. Then I started to fixate upon specific images and characters. One of them was the idea of a Michael Jackson impersonator walking the streets of Paris. I had these different images although they really didn’t have anything to do with one another. But I knew that there was something in there I was trying to get out, a unified idea, but I wasn’t sure how to say it.”
The movie stars Diego Luna (The Terminal) as a Michael Jackson impersonator who goes to Paris and meets up with a Marilyn Monroe lookalike (Samantha Morton) and a whole bunch of other fellow impersonators living together in a commune. Yes, Werner Herzog even makes an appearance again in there somewhere. Genius or pretentious gobbledee-gook? You decide. Check out two clips from the movie via the link below.
» Related Link: Vpod.TV: Mister Lonely clips
Comments (5)
I’m tempted to say that this looks perhaps more mundane than Gummo. As strange as that may be.
Posted by Another Mike on May 31st, 2007I don’t know about genius (that usually requires some pretty heavy level 3rd and 4th dimensional thinking) but certainly the idea sounds funny. If it’s supposed to be funny then it can’t really be all that pretentious. I think that pretension only happens when stupid people label melodrama as a “journey of the shaymen opus of the human condition” or some shit like that.
Posted by Ian on May 31st, 2007Well it sounds like he is taking the idea fairly seriously… there were other quotes in the Cinema Blend article where he explains the themes of the film.
Still, the fact that there seems to be coherent thought behind it could put this movie one up on his previous works in my opinion.
Posted by Sean on June 1st, 2007I gotta go with gobbledee-gook. I absolutely hated Gummo. The general synopsis of this film sounds better than Gummo, though, so I can’t judge it based on an unrelated movie, I suppose.
Posted by Rian on June 1st, 2007I think that harmony korine could have did a better job of showing the relationships betweeen the celebrity imporsationators ,he hinted at it.He should have done a better job at that & how they relate to each other.
Posted by matthew on August 23rd, 2008Leave a Reply