Mister Lonely

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Mister Lonely
Directed by Harmony Korine
Produced by Robin Wood
Written by Harmony Korine
Avi Korine
Starring Diego Luna
Samantha Morton
Werner Herzog
Anita Pallenberg
David Blaine
Joseph Morgan
Denis Lavant
Music by Sun City Girls
Jason Pierce
Cinematography Marcel Zyskind
Editing by Valdís Óskarsdóttir
Distributed by HanWay
Tartan Films (UK)
IFC Films (USA)
Release date(s) 2008
Country USA
Language English
Budget $8,200,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue $167,396 (USA)
$219,519 (foreign)

Mister Lonely is a 2007 film directed by Harmony Korine, and co-written with his brother Avi Korine.

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[edit] Plot summary

The story, according to Celluloid Dreams, is of "a young American man lost in Paris. He scratches out a living as a Michael Jackson look-alike, dancing on the streets, public parks, tourist spots and trade shows. Different from everyone else, he feels as if he's floating between two worlds. During a show in an old people's home Michael Jackson meets Marilyn Monroe. Haunted by her angelic beauty he follows her to a commune in the Highlands, joining her husband Charlie Chaplin and her daughter Shirley Temple. A place where everyone is famous and no-one gets old. Here, The Pope, The Queen of England, Madonna, James Dean and other impersonators build a stage in the hope that the world will visit and watch them perform. Nuns fall out of airplanes and children ride ponies. Everything is beautiful. Until the world shifts, and reality intrudes on their utopian dream."[1]

[edit] Cast

[edit] Reception

Mister Lonely received mixed reviews from critics. As of February 13, 2009, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 47% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 66 reviews — with the consensus that the film is not only "less biting than Korine's earlier works, but frustratingly dull."[2] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 53 out of 100, based on 22 reviews.[3]

Korine's largest film to date with a budget of $8.2 million,[4] it earned $386,915 in its first 9 months[5] — $167,396 in the United States and $219,519 in other territories.[6]

[edit] Development

The idea for the film had its genesis after the release of Julien Donkey-Boy but drug use and general disillusionment (along with fund-raising difficulties) prolonged the process. In a February, 2007 interview with Screen International he said: "I'd been making movies since I was virtually a kid, and it had always come very easily. At a certain point after the last movie, I started to have this general disconnect from things. I was really miserable with where I was. I began to lose sight of things and people started to become more and more distant. I was burnt out, movies were what I always loved in life and I started to not care. I went deeper and deeper into a dark place and to be honest movies were the last thing I was thinking about - I didn't know if I was going to be alive. My dream was to evaporate. I was unhealthy. Whatever happened during that time, and I won't go into the details, maybe it was something I needed to go through."[7] In a 2003 interview with the New York Post, former girlfriend Chloe Sevigny revealed that the formerly straight edge Korine had become addicted to heroin and methadone while they were together, with Korine's substance abuse issues contributing to the end of their relationship.[8][9]

Richard Strange, who plays Abraham Lincoln in the movie claimed that Korine often changed scenes and lines as he filmed the movie.[10]

[edit] Soundtrack

Half of the music for the film was written and performed by Sun City Girls, with the other half being created by Spiritualized frontman, Jason "Spaceman" Pierce

[edit] Tracklisting

  • 01 "Michael's Opening" (dialogue)
  • 02 Jason Spaceman: "Blues 1"
  • 03 Jason Spaceman: "Blues 2 (Intro)"
  • 04 Sun City Girls: "3D Girls"
  • 05 Jason Spaceman: "Panama 1"
  • 06 Sun City Girls: "Spook"
  • 07 Jason Spaceman: "Garden Walk"
  • 08 Sun City Girls: "Steppe Spiritual"
  • 09 Jason Spaceman: "Pope in the Bath"
  • 10 "Nun's Prayer" (dialogue)
  • 11 Sun City Girls: "Mr. Lonely Viola"
  • 12 Sun City Girls: "Beryl Scepter"
  • 13 "Red Riding Hood's Hangman" (dialogue)
  • 14 Jason Spaceman: "Stooges Harmonica"
  • 15 "Father Umbrillo's Broken Nation"
  • 16 Jason Spaceman: "Musicbox Underwater"
  • 17 Sun City Girls: "Circus Theme"
  • 18 Sun City Girls: "Vine Street Piano"
  • 19 Jason Spaceman: "Paris Beach"
  • 20 Sun City Girls: "Farewell"
  • 21 Angel Morgan: "Gold Dust"

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Harmony-Korine.com – News" (html). http://www.harmony-korine.com/paper/main/news.html. Retrieved on 2006-12-27. 
  2. ^ "Mister Lonely Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007814-10007814-mister_lonely/. Retrieved on 2008-05-02. 
  3. ^ "Mister Lonely (2008): Reviews". Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/misterlonely. Retrieved on 2008-05-02. 
  4. ^ Screen International Magazine, "Only The Lonely" by Fionnuala Halligan, Feb 2, 2007 p34-35
  5. ^ "Mister Lonely (2008)". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=misterlonely.htm. Retrieved on 2009-02-12. 
  6. ^ "Mister Lonely (2008)". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=misterlonely.htm. Retrieved on 2009-02-12. 
  7. ^ Screen International Magazine, "Only The Lonely" by Fionnuala Halligan, Feb 2, 2007 p34-35
  8. ^ http://www.chloesevigny.com/news_page5.html
  9. ^ Harmony-Korine.com . Interviews & Articles
  10. ^ Richard Strange (May 1, 2008), Highland Flings, ARTINFO, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27488/highlands-fling/, retrieved on 2008-05-14 

[edit] External links

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