Worst Cannes... ever!
05-24-03, 09:48 PM
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Worst Cannes... ever!
That seems to be the unanimous verdict for this year's Cannes.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...s_countdown_dc
Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny universally panned. Sounds like he made it to get a BJ from Chloe Sevigny...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...s_countdown_dc
Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny universally panned. Sounds like he made it to get a BJ from Chloe Sevigny...
05-24-03, 11:50 PM
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From what I understand, Gallo is about as pretentious and insufferable as a human can get....so this is really no surprise. I loved Buffalo '66 but this news surprises me not one bit....I thought this bit was pretty much hilarious....
U.S. director Vincent Gallo (news) is so hurt by the scathing reaction to his film "The Brown Bunny," that he has vowed to make it his last.
"I'll never make another movie again. I mean it," Gallo told Reuters, after his road movie had a disastrous reception at the Cannes film festival (news - web sites) and he was booed at a press conference.
"Being booed at was not much fun. It's really not very nice that people are so nasty. I'm very disappointed," he said early on Friday at the star-studded amfAR AIDS (news - web sites) fund-raiser.
Gallo, going through what he says is the worst week in his life, has also apologized to those who financed the film.
"It is a disaster of a film and it was a waste of time. I apologize to the financiers, but it was never my intention to make a pretentious film, a self-indulgent film, a useless film, an unengaging film," he said.
Critics guffawed openly at the screening of "The Brown Bunny," which Gallo wrote, directed, produced and starred in, and groaned at the highly graphic oral sex scene at the end.
Many found the long driving scenes interminable and monotonous and the symbolic use of a toy rabbit plain just silly.
Screen International has ranked the film the worst of the 20 films competing for this year's Palme d'Or.
"Vincent Gallo's monumental folly has already become a defining moment in Cannes history. Awestruck future generations will ask: 'Were you there the night they screened The Brown Bunny?"' one of the magazine's critics wrote Friday. A clearly depressed Gallo said he had hardly been able to face his friends since Cannes critics, bored by what they say is a miserable harvest of films, started laying into his movie.
"If my film is not comprehensible to people then I have failed in my purpose. I am disappointed that once again, what I like is unpopular. I can only apologize to the people who feel they have wasted their time," he said.
"I'll never make another movie again. I mean it," Gallo told Reuters, after his road movie had a disastrous reception at the Cannes film festival (news - web sites) and he was booed at a press conference.
"Being booed at was not much fun. It's really not very nice that people are so nasty. I'm very disappointed," he said early on Friday at the star-studded amfAR AIDS (news - web sites) fund-raiser.
Gallo, going through what he says is the worst week in his life, has also apologized to those who financed the film.
"It is a disaster of a film and it was a waste of time. I apologize to the financiers, but it was never my intention to make a pretentious film, a self-indulgent film, a useless film, an unengaging film," he said.
Critics guffawed openly at the screening of "The Brown Bunny," which Gallo wrote, directed, produced and starred in, and groaned at the highly graphic oral sex scene at the end.
Many found the long driving scenes interminable and monotonous and the symbolic use of a toy rabbit plain just silly.
Screen International has ranked the film the worst of the 20 films competing for this year's Palme d'Or.
"Vincent Gallo's monumental folly has already become a defining moment in Cannes history. Awestruck future generations will ask: 'Were you there the night they screened The Brown Bunny?"' one of the magazine's critics wrote Friday. A clearly depressed Gallo said he had hardly been able to face his friends since Cannes critics, bored by what they say is a miserable harvest of films, started laying into his movie.
"If my film is not comprehensible to people then I have failed in my purpose. I am disappointed that once again, what I like is unpopular. I can only apologize to the people who feel they have wasted their time," he said.
05-25-03, 12:36 AM
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Even though I personally don't give a crap about Ebert's reviews, usually, his review of "The Brown Bunny" was very amusing. This movie sounds so pompous and pointless.
05-25-03, 01:05 AM
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Re: Worst Cannes... ever!
Originally posted by Krug
Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny universally panned. Sounds like he made it to get a BJ from Chloe Sevigny...
Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny universally panned. Sounds like he made it to get a BJ from Chloe Sevigny...
05-27-03, 06:48 AM
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Originally posted by Sunday Morning
Can't wait to see the brown bunny! this "controversy" can only help it.
Can't wait to see the brown bunny! this "controversy" can only help it.
05-27-03, 04:48 PM
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from the Ebert review:
...scene in which he imagines he receives fellatio from his lost love, played by Chloe Sevigny. Let it be said that Sevigny, who reportedly cried during the screening, is heroic...
Why was she crying? Was she so moved by the film, or embarassed by her choice to be in the film? I missed this part of the story over the last week.
...scene in which he imagines he receives fellatio from his lost love, played by Chloe Sevigny. Let it be said that Sevigny, who reportedly cried during the screening, is heroic...
Why was she crying? Was she so moved by the film, or embarassed by her choice to be in the film? I missed this part of the story over the last week.
05-27-03, 05:28 PM
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Originally posted by Trigger
I still wanna see Brown Bunny. Buffalo 66 is one of my favorite movies.
I still wanna see Brown Bunny. Buffalo 66 is one of my favorite movies.
Buffalo 66 is a great film, it is hard to say that someone so sensitive and yet so egotisical would never make another film as he has said...He probably will and learn from his mistakes...Who knows like he said, he found out that the things he liked are not liked by others.
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Originally posted by bothanspy
from the Ebert review:
...scene in which he imagines he receives fellatio from his lost love, played by Chloe Sevigny. Let it be said that Sevigny, who reportedly cried during the screening, is heroic...
Why was she crying? Was she so moved by the film, or embarassed by her choice to be in the film? I missed this part of the story over the last week.
from the Ebert review:
...scene in which he imagines he receives fellatio from his lost love, played by Chloe Sevigny. Let it be said that Sevigny, who reportedly cried during the screening, is heroic...
Why was she crying? Was she so moved by the film, or embarassed by her choice to be in the film? I missed this part of the story over the last week.
05-27-03, 05:51 PM
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I too hope that Gallo doesn't quit. I was really impressed with Buffalo '66. I have a feeling that Brown Bunny is one of those awful films that can only be made by someone who can do much better work. If you've seen this type of catastrophe you know what I mean...
05-27-03, 11:39 PM
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I agree, the whole thing was pumped up and then fell somewhat flat, IMHO. Last years Cannes Festival was much better, but then again, there were some interesting films this year. And in regards to Brown Bunny, I can't wait to see it. If I like it, that will be a different story. 
