Julien Donkey-Boy

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Julien Donkey-Boy

R,

1999,

1h 41m,

Drama

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26%

34 Reviews

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72%

5,000+ Ratings

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72%

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A teenager (Ewen Bremner) struggles to exist amid a perverse and dysfunctional family.

Critics Consensus

Director Harmony Korine takes a big stylistic swing that will miss with most audiences, producing an unfocused and mean-spirited art film with a bitter aftertaste.

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

Feb 14, 2001

4/5

Julien donkey-boy acquires a spiritual dimension that allows it ultimately to become an act of redemption.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

3/4

The odds are good that most people will dislike this film and be offended by it. For others, it will provoke sympathy rather than scorn. You know who you are.

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Ana Marie Cox

Salon.com

Jan 1, 2000

Projects such as Julien exist not to explore the essentials of a film, but to induce in audiences a kind of critical vertigo.

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Matthew Rozsa

matthewrozsa.com

Dec 17, 2020

4/4

I identified very deeply with "Julien Donkey-Boy." If you have ever struggled with mental illness - and can handle the movie's distinctly "indie" style - I suspect you will too.

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Kaleem Aftab

The List

Apr 16, 2019

5/5

Julien Donkey-Boy consolidates Harmony Korine's credentials as the most interesting filmmaker in America today, and quite possibly the world.

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Sep 29, 2007

0/5

This movie could make you physically ill.

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Hagrid S

Jun 16, 2017

Beautifully flawed. Well worth the moments, many, of expressionistic and poetic beauty. Has a real heart for it's characters. Great acting. Fun to boot!

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Rey S

Apr 8, 2017

Korines second flick, done two years after his cult film "Gummo". While that film was weird and quite gross this film is more experimental. Julien is a schizophrenic and a strange guy with issues. His family and especially his father acted out by Werner Herzog is also pretty spectacular. His sister is having a baby, probably his own baby and we witness their life. It's presented with many artistic points of view and presentations. Stills from scenes filled with sound, blurry pictures, weird angles. It's labled as a Dogme, wrongfully if you ask me - it does not follow all the rules and many are straight up broken. Still raw and direct. It feard it would be a very poor film, but it's very interesting and it has some very fine moments and scenes. Still it's not a masterpiece or something, but a pretty successful experiment. I found the schizophrenia a bit overdone and this is first and foremost a drama flick if you ask me. It's much sadder than it's fun. It's also feels a bit dragged, even with a rather fast pace and only about 90 minutes of playtime. 5 out of 10 aces on top.

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Synopsis

A teenager (Ewen Bremner) struggles to exist amid a perverse and dysfunctional family.

Director: Harmony Korine
Producer: Scott Macaulay, Robin O'Hara, Cary Woods
Distributor: Fine Line Features
Production Co: Forensic Films, Independent Pictures, 391 Productions
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 7, 1999, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 2, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $80.2K
Runtime: 1h 41m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, Surround

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