
Pesented in the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard selection, the new Harmony Korine movie (eight years after Julien Donkey Boy) depicts the life of a solitary young american wich lives as being a Michael Jackson double. In Paris, performing in a rest house, he meets a Marilyn Monroe double, working there too. Feeling well together, she invites him in a small Scottish town where she lives in a big house with her husband, Charles Chaplin, and their daughter, Shirley Temple, but also Madonna, James Dean, Abraham Lincoln, Sammy Davis Jr, the Pope or the Queen of England… We’re invited once again into the poetic and personal universe of Harmony Korine, made of characters as colourful as tragic, incarnated by many of his comedians/directors friends : Werner Herzog, Léos Carax, Denis Lavant, and the really moving Samantha “Marilyn Monroe” Morton and Diego “Michael Jackson” Luna. Before discovering this movie in theaters, (re)discover Harmony Korine’s movies : JULIEN DONKEY BOY ( 1999 ) and GUMMO ( 1998 ) available on DVD.
MISTER LONELY by Harmony Korine
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