Vincent Gallo shocked the 2003 Cannes Film Festival with this highly personal film that he wrote, directed, produced, edited, photographed, and stars in. Gallo plays Bud Clay, a motorcycle racer on his way from New Hampshire to California in a van. The cross-country trip includes stops at a gas station, where Clay meets and falls for a gas station attendant named Violet (Anna Vareschi); a roadside food stand, where he meets the sadly beautiful Lilly (Cheryl Tiegs, making her feature-film debut); and the Las Vegas strip, where he picks up local prostitute Rose (Elizabeth Blake). As he comes into contact with these women, he can't let go of his past, which centers around Daisy (Chloe Sevigny), whom he hopes to find when he returns home to Los Angeles.
Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, THE BROWN BUNNY is a poignant, emotional drama that features long scenes with little or no dialogue, as Gallo uses natural sound and lighting, jazz and folk music, and long, lingering shots of the open road, raindrops on a windshield, and the scraggly-haired protagonist to create a nearly suffocating atmosphere of loss and loneliness. Winner of the FIPRESCI prize at the 2003 Viennale "for its bold exploration of yearning and grief and for its radical departure from dominant tendencies in current American filmmaking," THE BROWN BUNNY is sure to cause a stir because of its infamous and shocking X-rated sex scene near the end of the picture, although it is a tender, soft, and powerfully subtle film.
Theatrical Release: August 27, 2004
DVD Features:
Region 1
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.66
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.0 - English
DTS - English
Subtitles - English, French - Optional
Additional Music/Songs
Gordon Lightfoot: Canadian Singer/Songwriter
Director of Photography
Vincent Gallo: Actor
Additional Music/Songs
Jeff Alexander: American composer, ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO/KID GALAHAD
Review 1:
"Gallo has caught the freedom and melancholy, the intoxicating aimlessness, the lonely twilight beauty of a solo road trip in a way that no previous filmmaker has."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.56 09/03/2004
Review 2:
"[V]ery watchable, often beautiful-looking..."
Source: New York Times
p.E1 08/27/2004
Review 3:
"[I]t has the gritty visual syntax and off-road sensibility of a lost movie from the '70s."
Source: Movieline's Hollywood Life
p.101 09/01/2005
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