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Julien Donkey-Boy

  • Dir: Harmony Korine

  • USA, 1999, English, 94mins, DCP

  • Cast: Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog

The first American film created in accordance with the Dogme 95 manifesto, Harmony Korine’s sophomore film paints a fragmented, impressionistic portrait of a schizophrenic young man living in the multi-ethnic, working-class community of Queens, New York. Julien’s world consists of his dysfunctional family (presided over by Werner Herzog in a cult performance as an abusive father) and a vaudeville assortment of fellow marginalised misfits, including an armless card shark and a black albino rapper. Trainspotting’s Ewen Bremner plays alongside Korine muse Chloë Sevigny, who appears as his pregnant sister, but the true star is cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, whose dazzlingly experimental DV cinematography pushes the Dogme 95 aesthetic towards an avant-garde extreme.

Venice Film Festival

    Screening:

    In-theatre Screening

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    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
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    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.