Genre: Drama, Adult, On The Road, Prostitution, Psychodrama, Erotic
Plot: 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
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 It's hard to imagine how anyone could appreciate this movie, with its inane, repetitious, and pause-filled dialogue; non-existent plot; and stillborn character definition. This is a vanity project for Gallo.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
The "worst movie ever made"? Not at all. In fact, Vincent Gallo's latest film is one of the truest songs of roadside America the movies have ever produced.--Charles Taylor (Salon)
...the scenes all lack the other sort of focus. They sort of happen, improvised clumsily, in dreary circumstances, always in but one note, which might be called high art film self-pity.--Stephen Hunter (Washington Post)
May be one of the most pretentious, self-obsessed, boring films you may ever see in your lifetime; for me, it was all three, and yet strangely intriguing. B--Lee Tistaert (Lee's Movie Info)
Gallo has so much promise as writer and director, but I must have just missed the point. 2/10--'Cinema Guru Boy' (JackassCritics.com)
Taken as a disturbing, but slow, journey of regret over the raging ego-trip it appears to be on the outside, and "Brown Bunny" is actually a fairly wonderful accomplishment. B+--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
Hyperbolically dismissed at Cannes, cut by a much resented quarter, and resurrected into lukewarm possibility by the public's fascination with graphic sexuality, The Brown Bunny is too tame for the tsking and too unsubstantial for the fatwas. But it doeshave its gut-punch.--Shari L. Rosenblum (CineScene)
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| The longer the film goes on, the more I hate it. If this is a "feature film," then so are your old home movies, or videotapes from a convenience store's security camera. You can praise it for being boldly deconstructionist, or for flouting the rules of cinema, or even for including a scene of hard-core pornography. But I denounce it for being the worst thing a movie can be: boring. It's not just one scene; the whole movie blows. F --Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
THERE'S more to "The Brown Bunny" than oral sex. Yes, the much-talked-about movie does climax with Vincent Gallo being serviced by Chloe Sevigny. But the graphic scene serves an artistic purpose, just as the film's other 90 or so minutes do.  --V.a. Musetto (New York Post)
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