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IFC fall outta the sky for ‘Mister Lonely’

Published on August 24, 2007

You’ve got to have a special funny bone and plenty of stamina to enjoy Harmony Korine’s comeback film. In some post-Cannes, pre-Toronto shopping, IFC First Take has picked up the nutty laugher Mister Lonely.

Korine co-scripted with Avi Korine, this is a yarn about a young American lost in Paris, eking out a living as a Michael Jackson (Luna) lookalike. By co-incidence, he meets Marilyn Monroe (Morton). He follows her to a commune in Scotland, joining her husband Charlie Chaplin (Lavant) and her daughter Shirley Temple. Fellow residents include The Pope, The Queen of England (Pallenberg), Madonna and James Dean. The drama is also partly set In a Brazilian forest where a community of missionary nuns bring aid to the locals. By far the person who steals the show is Werner Herzog who plays a priest.

The film will show at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival in the Vanguard section and will see theaters in 08’.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).