Pays : Film Britanique,Français
Genre : Drame
Durée : 1h51
Date de Sortie : Prochainement
Avec : Diego Luna, Denis Lavant, Samantha Morton
Réalisateur : Harmony Korine
Un sosie de Michael Jackson vivant seul à Paris fait la rencontre du clône de la belle Marilyn Monroe. Celle-ci lui propose de l’accompagner dans un petit village d’Ecosse où se tient un gala de sosies. Michael accepte et fait ainsi la rencontre du petit chaperon rouge, de Charlin Chaplin, d’Abraham Lincoln mais aussi de la Reine d’Angleterre, de Madonna et de bien d’autres...
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22 mai 2007
Harmony Korine has come a long way in film-making and in his general outlook on life since he wrote Kids, with its pessimism about young New Yorkers, when he was in his early 20s. He also made the provocative Gummo and julien donkey boy. Now, he has moved from grim realism to fantasy, from the negative to some kind of hope (however temporary).
We are introduced to a community of impersonators, living their perceptions of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, the Three Stooges, Abraham Lincoln, Chaplin, Madonna or the Pope. A bit mad, a bit isolated, yet catching on to the celebrity’s gift and finding meaning in it for themselves and to offer to others. Central is Diego Luna as Michael Jackson, and his odyssey through this partly crazy world.
In the meantime, the nuns who cared for Michael when he was young (and their habit is a bit like a Blessed Virgin statue), help the rather sympathetic priest (played nicely by Werner Herzog) to fly supplies to remote villages. Suffice to say that they become involved in freefall skydiving. It is that kind of film.
Korine offers us a fey world, a nice world, some pleasure in fantasy and yet he sees it still as something passing.
