The Brown Bunny

Name: The Brown Bunny
Genre: Drama
Released: August 27, 2004
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Cheryl Tiegs, Chloë Sevigny, Vincent Gallo

2004

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Wellspring Media | Release Date: August 27, 2004 | Not Rated

Starring: Cheryl Tiegs, Chloë Sevigny, Vincent Gallo

Summary: Both a love story and a haunting portrait of a lost soul unable to forget his past, the film follows a motorcycle racer (Gallo) on his cross-country journey. (Wellspring)

Director: Vincent Gallo

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Sean Axmaker

An honorable and often enticing piece of personal filmmaking. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Make no mistake: The Cannes version was a bad film, but now Gallo's editing has set free the good film inside. The Brown Bunny is still not a complete success -- it is odd and off-putting when it doesn't want to be -- but as a study of loneliness and need, it evokes a tender sadness. Read full review

Derek Elley

An astonishing improvement on the original version. With 27 minutes excised, pic emerges from its mind-numbing undergrowth as a memorable -- if still highly specialized -- exercise in personal, '70s-style American filmmaking, with a cohesive feel and rhythm that marks Gallo as a distinctive indie talent. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Neither an atrocity nor a revelation, The Brown Bunny is a very watchable, often beautiful-looking attempt by Mr. Gallo to reproduce the kind of loosely structured mood pieces that found American and select foreign-language cinemas of the 1960's and 70's often at their most adventurous. Read full review

Carina Chocano

How much you enjoy the experience will depend on your take on Gallo. If you think he's a brilliant, satirical cut-up, then The Brown Bunny is an elaborate and successful art prank. If you think he's a pretentious, self-obsessed, tedious weirdo, then The Brown Bunny will back you up 100% Read full review

James Berardinelli

The Brown Bunny is one long, self-indulgent bore topped off with a hard-core porn scene featuring Gallo and co-star Chloë Sevigny. Read full review

Connie Ogle

There are not enough synonyms for ''bad'' to describe the pretension and utter banality of the masturbatory The Brown Bunny, a film so exhaustively awful even its creator Vincent Gallo once disavowed it. Read full review

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JasonB.

Aug 31, 2006

This movie took off slow, but shook me to my core by the time it was over. I couldn't stop thinking about for over a week. Vincent Gallo did not set out to direct Garden State! I'm sorry if your attention span didn't allow you to sit thru this beautiful film. This film This movie took off slow, but shook me to my core by the time it was over. I couldn't stop thinking about for over a week. Vincent Gallo did not set out to direct Garden State! I'm sorry if your attention span didn't allow you to sit thru this beautiful film. This film requires a little more thought than the average pop cum indie fair.… Expand

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KenB.

Sep 13, 2005

Neva Chonin of the San Francisco Chronicle has totally missed the point. This film is not about sexual obsession and guilt, it's about loneliness. We feel the pain a young man who has lost his lover (we later find out the details) and who makes lonely trips from one location to the Neva Chonin of the San Francisco Chronicle has totally missed the point. This film is not about sexual obsession and guilt, it's about loneliness. We feel the pain a young man who has lost his lover (we later find out the details) and who makes lonely trips from one location to the next to race motorbikes. He interacts with several women along the way - not for sex but to reach out and regain the lost companionship. The final episode with his former sweet-heart explains everything. I enjoyed the film. It really brings home the loneliness a man can experience when traveling alone without love. The infamous felatio scene at the end of the movie was I believe faked. What man clamps a fist around the base of his penis and never lets go while his lover performs oral sex? Wouldn't most men surrender his organ completely to the woman's attention? I say only a man who is trying to hide the fact that he is wearing a fake penis would keep such a death grip. And his would not be the first faked penis in films. In "Irreversible," the man who commits the brutal rape in the tunnel turns over and his erect penis is visible temporarily. But in the DVD, the director shows how the scene was originally shot and how a penis was added digitally afterward. In Breillat's film about shooting a porn film, much ado is made over choosing the right fake penis to wear during the porn scenes.… Expand

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893ru8943u

May 26, 2009

For those who didn't enjoy this film, may I suggest Dane Cooke's My Best Friend's Girl or perhaps Seann William Scott's Balls Out. Those films aren't contrived at all and I have a feeling they'll be more up your alley.

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RobinT.

Apr 16, 2006

Very slow and pretentious.

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DarkCritic

Aug 31, 2010

The Brown Bunny is one of the worst independent films that Vincent Gallo directed this strange movie. The scenes are too boring to watch,because we see that the character keeps driving around all the way to the road and nothing with the plot that he's going at the same plot without noThe Brown Bunny is one of the worst independent films that Vincent Gallo directed this strange movie. The scenes are too boring to watch,because we see that the character keeps driving around all the way to the road and nothing with the plot that he's going at the same plot without no explanation of the story. The characters had no speaking louder in the audience and we try to figure it out what they're saying. Chloe Sevigny just arrived and she started to have a sex scene,but very graphic and too controversial with the actress (that it looks like a porn or a sex scandal in this movie that the audience see.) I give this movie a horrible,but amazing horrible film that Gallo did this horrible film that he shows in Cannes and I agree with Roger Ebert that he only gave three stars and thumbs up for saying "amazing horrible film. But it's just a horrible independent adult film and it's seen to believe!… Expand

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SebastianL.

Sep 12, 2005

For all of the controversy surrounding this movie, it sure was boring! The low budget cinematography has a few good moments that reminded me of a 1970's Redford movie; but mostly it just looks like an amature with a handi cam. The story is of a guy who is deeply damaged and his cross For all of the controversy surrounding this movie, it sure was boring! The low budget cinematography has a few good moments that reminded me of a 1970's Redford movie; but mostly it just looks like an amature with a handi cam. The story is of a guy who is deeply damaged and his cross country ride in a van. His delusion is sort of played on the audience like a bad joke and the punch line is a gritty imagined oral sex scene that would even make Bill Clinton uncomfortable. My question for Paul Gallo who wrote, directed stared and produced this waste of time is this... Why not just make a real porno with rude sex from start to finish? It would be more interesting!… Expand

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Cables

Mar 21, 2007

This is officially the worst excuse for filmmaking I've ever experienced. It's almost unbearable to watch. On several different occasions I actually had to turn my head.. not because of the content, but because of how banal and pretentious the few lines of dialogue are.

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