17-Down, Three Letters: Party for One artist Carly ___ Jepsen. Busy Phillips Is Not Like a Regular Mom, Shes a Cool Mom, Theres nothing wrong with Busy Phillips being cast as Mrs. George in the upcoming, In Search of Tom and Katies Bubba Painting, Maybe punting on the larger plot can be forgiven if we get a sweet. Comedy-Drama. . Its very obvious when shes going to do it, so it would be easy for viewers to close their eyes until all the yelling and laughter dies down. They reluctantly agree, but the city is in gridlock due to the protests, which are on the verge of becoming riots. Castillo immediately punches the man. Castillo is frustrated and wants to hear what Jane has planned for the campaign. It's a case study, if nothing else, of starting with a dubious idea and making it downright awful. I have to rate it Offensive, due to its foul language, several blasphemies, and Sandra Bullocks bare hiny. Some reviews said it was ambiguous. Besser. Her words are intercut with footage of newspaper headlines and, oddly, shots of Bullocks hands molding clay at a pottery wheel. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. "Our Brand Is Crisis" is a fictionalized treatment of the 2005 documentary of the same name, which focused on Bill Clinton's former campaign manager James Carville. Unfortunately, the quote is actually from Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda. A lethally effective charm delivery system, Sandra Bullock doesn't need to do much to win you over. But as a whole, "Our Brand is Crisis" is a messy affair that sputters along when it should be humming with assured cynical momentum. But it never keeps the energy up, steering into forced visual gags, dull spells of earnestness, and ponderous backstory psychologythe viewer never is quite sure who really did what to whom in the Candy-Bodine love-hate relationship. Castillo promises them that he will not invite the IMF without a public referendum. They are then in a restaurant, the entire campaign team drinking heavily. We know this stuff happens, but its still clarifying to see the curtains pulled back. Jane has accepted the offer and their plane lands in La Paz, Bolivia, which has an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. Digital rental or purchase allows you to instantly stream and download to watch anywhere and anytime on your favorite devices. There are dozens of pottery jars and bowls covering the walls. When shes recruited for a chance to face off in Bolivia against her longtime and similarly depraved rival, Pat Candyportrayed convincingly enough as a stock Billy Bob Thornton character by Billy Bob Thorntonshe signs up. [27] Peter Debruge from Variety thought that Jane Bodine, played by Bullock, "is easily one of the best female roles of the last 10 years,"[28] while Benjamn Lee from The Guardian wrote that "Bullock seems blissfully unaware of the films faults and delivers a performance that expertly plays on her strengths - her comic timing, wasted in lesser, plane-ready comedies, is on top form and she imbues her neurotic character with more than the thinly sketched quirks provided on the page; she commands a room when needed, perfects scenes of physical comedy and even turns a climax of forced sentiment into something poignant and believable"; he concluded that "while the film is patchy, Bullock's brand is confidently crisis-free". He is a crook. They make big promises that mean jack shit. Getting hurt is unavoidable, she tells him. [2/4], Sandra Bullock is the best part of this wobbly farce As a look at the state of the art of political campaigning (in the US as well as in Bolivia), Our Brand Is Crisis does not cut particularly deep and the ending isnt great. Verdict. Our Brand is Crisis (2015) (964) 6.1 1 h 47 min 2015 X-Ray R. A Bolivian presidential candidate failing in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist Jane Bodine. They talk about the book and Mephistopheles, with whom Faust makes a wager for his soul. Ben admires a shiny dark bowl but Nell takes it from him. Written by Peter Straughan, and according to its credits inspired by the 2005 documentary film of the same name, Our Brand is Crisis uneasily mixes the star vehicle with the screwball-political-comedy/satire with the (half-heartedly, in the end) impassioned call to social consciousness arms. By Manohla Dargis. David Gordon Green keeps the perspectives shifting, getting lots of good angles on this three-ring circus. Its pretty powerful, actually. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Entertaining and provocative, Our Brand Is Crisis is a satirical political drama. Let me know how that goes. Jane then joins the mass of people who are walking toward the city. When Jane leaves the meeting with LeBlanc, she instead instructs her to dig up dirt on Castillo, their own candidate. Smoke too much? The interviewer says shes been known by many names, most notably Calamity Jane. She quotes, It may be alright to have a power that is based on guns. Jane next starts a rumor that Rivera is a Nazi, based on no real facts, but a fuzzy picture showing him with Nazi propaganda. Jane gets blasted, leaks misinformation, vandalizes Candys room, and sabotages his candidates rallies the way he sabotaged her candidates. All contents 2023 The Slate Group LLC. I need a majority. South Africa - DM Listen, 18 Dec Ramaphosa's Renew22 team decides to back Mabuyane over Lamola - When the Renew22 caucus met on Day 3 of the ANC's National Elective Conference, at least 2,400 delegates agreed to support Cyril Ramaphosa's bid for a second term as party president, with Oscar Mabuyane as his second in command. But it seems as though screenwriter Peter Straughan and director David Gordon Green realized near the end that theyd written a feature-length film celebrating consultants ability to install a lying, oligarchic, IMF-beholden stooge to a South American presidency, and decided they ought to wrap things up more palatably. In the city, Eddie is hanging Castillo posters. Montage of the press reporting throughout the day. On a scale of laminated-eyebrow drama to Lemon Lady Secrets. Either the character repents, and you have a cornball ending, or the character doesnt, and you have a soapy endorsement of sociopathy. The real meat of the comedy, and drama, comes in the ingenious dirty tricks that Candy and Bodine play on each other, which could kick off a primer on the political practice recently known as rat-f**king (although that phrase is never uttered in the film). document.write(ts+'script src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad12539a.cgi/v=2.3S/sz=728x90A|970x66A/'+rnum+'/'+nf+'RETURN-CODE/JS/">'+ts+'/script>'); You can send in your spoiler to other movies by going here. Sometimes the portrayal is satiricalRobert DeNiros spin doctor in Wag the Dog, the assassin-like Dylan McDermott in The Campaign, the sex-addicted Kathryn Hahn in televisions Parks and Recreation. Castillo and the campaign team are on the outdoor set of a commercial for the Senator. After he does this, Castillo gives Eddie his cufflinks to hold, and it is clear Eddie idolizes him. Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. At another meeting with advisors, its revealed the crisis message is working, but not so well that it will win the election. There are too many balls in the air, too many uncontrollable outside factors, for any singular figure to get all of this under control, be 10 steps ahead of the curve, and successfully and confidently blaze a trail from pre-candidacy to election to dignified leadership. [6] On September 15, Billy Bob Thornton joined the film,[7] and on September 18, Anthony Mackie joined the cast. The emotional investment Green wants to make in Jane feels misplaced, especially since he also wants to celebrate moments when she behaves abhorrently. The pacing is. It is only the knowing, salty political consultant who can bridge the gap between political reality and tidy fictional narrative. Arriving at Janes house, she explains she has quit smoking and drinking and has focused on pottery. In its opening weekend, it was projected to make $57 million from 2,202 theaters,[23] however only ended up grossing $3.2 million, finishing eighth at the box office. All the stupid tricks are here, the ones people laugh at onscreen in the context of a film like this but fall for in spite of themselves on their TVs during football games. An SUV carrying the Castillo advisors sees him and stop to give him a ride home, insisted upon by Jane. When people say its a communist movie, I think they are hugely misunderstanding the movies point. Our Brand is Crisis is more than just the scenario Jane (Sandra Bullock) is selling to the Bolivian public in hopes of bringing her candidate Castillo from a blip on the radar to leading the. The study of crisis management originated with large-scale industrial and environmental disasters in the 1980s. Our sophisticated political flimflam could make more inroads than the Marshall Plan. During a debate prep session, Castillo and Jane engage in a heated argument in which Jane says they are all just puppets in the political game, and that nobody is in charge. There are very occasional crude sexual references. And yet in David Gordon Greens tale of political fixers, Our Brand Is Crisis, he wants to find hope. The image of that boy haunts Our Brand Is Crisis, so that the U.S. strategists who do a bang-up job of getting the wrong man elected to the wrong place at the wrong time look like agents of catastrophe.. What sealed the deal was that she will be coming up against her long-time arch-nemesis, Pat Candy. Can Hollywood find a way to take the political consultant character in a new direction? Jane says its just a carousel and she was going around and around. Candy goes on to tell Jane, If you fight with monsters too long, you become a monster. Jane later says that shell kill herself if she loses to Candy again (though this appears to be hyperbole) She has lost every election against him. Underneath it all plays Ten Years Afters Id Love To Change The World, the absolute nadir of Woodstock-era protest rock; the movies sound editor deserves some kind of award for smoothly deleting the songs opening volley against dykes and fairies.. In my review of the documentary, I wrote: The process of framing Goni to look like something he isnt could be the stuff of a rambunctious campaign comedy like Primary Colors or, for that matter, the documentary The War Room And parts of Our Brand Is Crisis are darkly amusing. Though not without its entertaining momentsthe cast, led by Sandra Bullock, is energetic, sharp and gets a fair number of juicy bits to rock out with. ***SPOILER*** Castillo wins the election, and immediately breaks all his promises and turns out to be a tyrant. ", "Toronto Review: Sandra Bullock Carries Our Brand Is Crisis", "Sandra Bullock Adds Gravity to Bolivian Political Satire", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Brand_Is_Crisis_(2015_film)&oldid=1134072378, Tilda Del Toro as Pedro Castillo's secretary, This page was last edited on 16 January 2023, at 22:01. Afterwards, Jane sends 3 Bolivian singers to show up at Candys door. ------------------------------------------. That is now the title of the Bullock movie directed by indie-film veteran David Gordon Green and written by Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), which is also set during a Bolivian presidential campaign and stars Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Scoot McNairy, Ann Dowd and Zoe Kazan as Bullocks rivals or colleagues in the Machiavellian business of reinventing candidates and reshaping public opinion. The pacing is lickety-split, the talk is boisterous, and the cast is all aces. Yes, this is a movie where a diabolical character is given the surname Candy, and what can you really say? But every once in a while, you come across a movie that seems to be driving an evil message all the way through, and then suddenly the ending takes a moral turn and shows that the protagonists were wrong. Shes convinced to step up when she discovers the front-runner has hired consultant Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), her arch-nemesis. She introduces LeBlanc (Zoe Kazan), a young investigator who is hired to dig up dirt on Rivera. Jane says There is only one wrong in this, and that is losing. But at the end, the team realizes how wrong they werein a shocking way. [5] On September 11, Scoot McNairy was added to the cast. Its nun versus AI in Damon Lindelofs new series. Bullock plays Calamity Jane Bodine, a legendary practitioner of the dark political arts who comes out of semi-retirement to navigate the hapless ex-president back to the top job. Our Brand Is Crisis review - dirty political dealings in South America. He denies being a member of the cult. [23], Eric Kohn from Indiewire wrote that the movie is all about Bullock's performance, saying "she imbues her part with a ferocious energy that constantly elevates the straightforward material". See list of Relevant Issuesquestions-and-answers. Jane is elated and tells the communication team to talk to the press and inform them Rivera just used a quote from Joseph Goebbels, the head Nazi propaganda minister. They approach each other and she just smiles. Goni fled the country five days later, and now lives in exile in the U.S., which has refused to extradite him to Bolivia to face trial for extrajudicial killings and other crimes against humanity. Maybe its time to put it out to pasture. All rights reserved. The campaign believes Castillo should apologize as soon as possible but Jane disagrees. The deception disgusts her. He calls the police and Jane is seen slapping an officer. This Friday, Sandra Bullock assumes the role in Our Brand Is Crisis, a mostly satirical take on a 2005 documentary of the same name about American political consultants conquest of a Bolivian election. [2/4], Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, would be perfect humanist, socialist, anti-capitalist propaganda except its a bit disjointed Abhorrent at least 61 obscenities rear female nudity when woman on bus moons other bus, crass, grimy and not sure of its own message burdens itself with foul language and sexual allusions, spoiling some pretty great performances from Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton. She gives him a bottle of Paul Newman Steak Sauce. Jane is on the set but is only seen in the background on a lounge chair, still looking unwell. So those questions remain in the dim and dusty background, behind the quasi-hilarious dirty tricks, the long nights of booze, the almost-condescending interactions with indigenous Bolivians and the rivalrous relationship tinged with both tragedy and Eros between Jane and Thorntons Mephistophelean (and distinctly Carville-like) Pat Candy. [11] More casting was also announced, which included Reynaldo Pacheco, Dominic Flores, Louis Arcella, and Octavio Gmez. The Weeknd responded to a Rolling Stone story claiming the show is a rape fantasy with a clip of his character calling the mag irrelevant. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. Nevertheless, his brothers are much more skeptical about Castillo. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. He is currently 28 points behind. Ben jumps out and yells, get in the car, what are you doing? I think you pull it, Joshua Jackson says to Lizzy Caplan sensually. Thats why Hollywood had to invent a character with such powers: the knowing, salty political consultant. ts=String.fromCharCode(60); Our Brand Is Crisis is a sharp political comedy ostensibly based on Bolivia's 2002 presidential election. "[25] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Jane says the llama cant stand the commercial so badly, he killed himself. Like before, it came from La Paz Grassroots, but this time it really did come from Candy. Lets Do the Thing: How Online Were You in February 2023? Yet you really have to read between the lines and dig into the subtext of Straughans screenplay to perceive the issues that drove Boyntons film. Thankfully, were usually too wrapped up in Bullocks great performance to mind the films cognitive dissonance. Still offensive? She finally just decided to get off the carousel. Is it money? Honestly, I didnt know what to expect, on a number of levels. Both Bullock and Thornton portray Carvillesque characters (and the bald Thornton looks the part). At another commercial set inside a warehouse, several llamas are there, and Castillo is set to compare the future of Bolivia with llamas, who work hard. Janes conversion, alas, is over-broad and signaled from the start. Bullocks Jane Bodine offers nothing new. Facing a general strike and a series of confrontations between soldiers and protesters that left at least 67 civilians dead, Goni imposed martial law in October 2003, and the U.S. State Department issued a statement offering its full support. The poor reviews of Our Brand is Crisis are puzzling, since its one of the few non-documentary films to show successfully a) what rip-roaring fun politics can be when its only about marketing and b) what terrible things can happen when its only about marketing. ***END SPOILER***. LeBlanc finds even more dirt on Rivera, but Jane tells her to focus everything on finding dirt on Castillo. Inspired by the 2005 documentary of the . Fliers are discovered, authored by the La Paz Grassroots that say Castillo had a three year affair. Others discuss plans but Jane is silent. The firm brings in "Calamity" Jane Bodine to manage Castillo's fledging campaign. Its only when the camera is on top of him that we see the pool of blood. It's a game that has a real impact on people's lives, but a game nonetheless. Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) Rated R for language including some sexual references. From there, Jane uses every trick at her disposal to try and beat Candy. The opposition's top political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy. Candy says he will be going to overseas for a British campaign. As president in the mid-90s, he had pursued a controversial two-level strategy, extending constitutional rights and policy reforms aimed at Bolivias large indigenous population while also embarking on a widespread campaign of privatization that sold off state-owned industries and natural resources to foreign capital. [19] Additional filming occurred in Puerto Rico and Bolivia. Answer, Should Christians seek political power or should we only focus on evangelism? Sometimes its melodramaticthink the sinister Ryan Gosling and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Ides of March, or most notably, Kevin Spaceys snaky Frank Underwood, the master strategist and politician bundled into one on House of Cards. Our Brand is Crisis was one of these pleasant surprises. Candy can be seen watching the action in the background. He takes a room across the balcony in Janes hotel, where he can meet her stare, undress her with his eyes, and psych her out. LeBlanc discovers Rivera has purchased 27 vehicles with taxpayer money at the cost of about 35-40 vehicles. Calamity Jane (Sandra Bullock), has been lured out of retirement by gobs of money and a challenge: Can she convince the Bolivian people to elect as president an unpopular, arrogant, cigar-chomping oligarch named Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida)who was already president once and bungled the job? Power? Meanwhile, Thornton employs his well-honed smiling/sneering shtick to nicely nasty effect. Gonis second term as president barely lasted a year, after his plans to allow an international consortium to build a pipeline and ship Bolivian natural gas to North America at dirt-cheap prices sparked a massive popular uprising. At least not right away. It is considered to be the most important process in public relations." In the mix is a fine supporting cast including a sensational Thornton . Privacy Policy and Castillo says its in the past, and that his wife knows about it, but Jane claims the perception will be that hes an adulterer. Well, this is the rambunctious comedy version of Our Brand Is Crisis, framed by director David Gordon Green and the British writer Peter Straughan not with a dead boy but the personal odyssey of a fictional character. [17][18] Filming also took place in the Bonnet Carr Spillway in Norco in St. Charles Parish. Later shell claim he got the room intentionally to get under her skin. By the way, the bus driver is paid to drive like a complete moron to do it. As one of his first actions, he invites the IMF into Bolivia, thereby breaking his promise. Not seeing what she highlighted, Candy asks about it. Jane is talking with Nell, and insults her about her dedication to the campaign. She can quote appropriate nuggets of wisdom from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and from the world's leaders and thinkers. Realizing that her candidate, Senator Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida) cant win by being likable, they decide to use fear as their issue, sell that Bolivia is a nation in crisis, and hes the only many that can save it. However, when two strategists for a struggling Bolivian presidential campaign pique her interest, she goes down to the South American country to see if she should get back in the fight. David Gordon Greens uneven Wag the Dog-style satirical political romp takes both its title and theme from Rachel Boyntons 2005 documentary about the role played by the gun-for-hire American consultants in the 2002 Bolivian elections. Outside, a large groan is heard. [2/4], The effort by Our Brand Is Crisis director David Gordon Green and writer Peter Straughan to turn the 2005 documentary of the same name into a light comedy with touches of romance and political hijinks leave the fictional version a poor candidate in the box office race. The premise doesn't really show up until the end of the movie. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Some said it was staunchly communist. Among the many achievements of HBOs Veep is its discovery of a new, post-Carville political consultant character, one thats just as cuttingly entertaining but truer to reality. It received mixed reviews, despite Bullock's performance being largely praised, and was a box office disappointment. February 27, 2023. But Boynton has done her own framing: This campaign is a precursor to tragedy. Cut back to the interview that opened the film. The political comedy Our Brand Is Crisis stars Sandra Bullock as an American campaign strategist hired to work for a Bolivian presidential candidate. Carvilles troops were dispatched to La Paz in 02 to consolidate the great victory of liberalism and democracy as they and their sponsors and benefactors understand those things and to resist the rising tide of Latin American leftism represented in Bolivia by the indigenous political leader Evo Morales, Gonis leading opponent. Eddie replies, what about you? Its yoked to an impoverished Bolivian teenager who believesdespite the angry effusions of his brother and friends in their hillside slumthat Castillo is sincere in trying to bring about economic equality. Click here for all of our TIFF 2015 coverage thus far or peruse links to our reviews below: Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. She opens with footage of an anti-government riot that came less than a year after the election. Covering Rammsteins Du Hast in Berlin. This was the lowest wide release opening of Bullock's career, beating 1996's Two If by Sea ($4.7 million). He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack. Violence: Moderate / Profanity: Heavy / Sex/Nudity: Moderate to heavys. (Vice) President Selina Meyers (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has a stable of advisers including Dan Egan (Reid Scott) and Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) who have internalized and aspire to the Carville cult; its just that reality interrupts to remind them that things dont work like that. She needs a cigarette, so she walks out the door into a large open foyer. Morales government has dramatically reduced poverty and inequality, and presided over one of the worlds fastest-growing economies, right through the crash of 2008. Rivera is on, holding two babies during a campaign stop, confessing how hes doubly lucky, and promises to run a positive campaign. As it happens and Im sure all this is coincidental Bolivia contains immense natural gas reserves, the second-largest in South America after Venezuela, whose national resources had been rendered largely off limits to outside investors by the rise of socialist president Hugo Chvez. They just decided to be ingratiating and sentimental. It is only after Bodine arranges for the distribution of a flyer accusing Castillo of a long-ago affair (and blaming it on the opposition) does she finally get him to agree to smear his opponents. He wants to find triumph in a tale that should be satiric at best and depressing at worst. There are 12 misuses of god, Jesus (1), Jesus Christ (1), hell (3) and d*mn (3). As a result of this, Castillo agrees to start running a negative campaign. He tells a story about a campaign run by Adlai Stevenson in which Stevenson is told everything thinking person would vote for him, to which Stevenson replies that is not enough. Once a political idealist, she increasingly was a strategist for hire outwardly not caring about the actual politics of her boss. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. When she starts giving it back to himpsyching him outthe movie gets really good. , No amount of political manoeuvring can fix this film [1/4], An uneven mix of cynical satire and breezy comedy. Terms of Service apply. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Castillo promises the people that will happen if hes elected. The news that Jane will be pitted against political consultant Pat Candy, with whom she has a past, is enough to get her away from the wheel. [4] It was theatrically released by Warner Bros. on October 30, 2015. Our Brand is Crisis review: While the film is heart-warmingly centered on Bullock, she is at her best neurotic, desperate, redeemable self. 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