[go: up one dir, main page]

    Calendario delle usciteI migliori 250 filmI film più popolariEsplora film per genereCampione d’incassiOrari e bigliettiNotizie sui filmFilm indiani in evidenza
    Cosa c’è in TV e in streamingLe migliori 250 serieLe serie più popolariEsplora serie per genereNotizie TV
    Cosa guardareTrailer più recentiOriginali IMDbPreferiti IMDbIn evidenza su IMDbGuida all'intrattenimento per la famigliaPodcast IMDb
    EmmysSuperheroes GuideSan Diego Comic-ConSummer Watch GuideBest Of 2025 So FarDisability Pride MonthSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralTutti gli eventi
    Nato oggiCelebrità più popolariNotizie sulle celebrità
    Centro assistenzaZona contributoriSondaggi
Per i professionisti del settore
  • Lingua
  • Completamente supportata
  • English (United States)
    Parzialmente supportata
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Lista Video
Accedi
  • Completamente supportata
  • English (United States)
    Parzialmente supportata
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Usa l'app
  • Il Cast e la Troupe
  • Recensioni degli utenti
  • Quiz
  • Domande frequenti
IMDbPro

Julien Donkey-Boy

  • 1999
  • R
  • 1h 34min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,7/10
8107
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Chloë Sevigny in Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
A portrait of the effects of schizophrenia on family life is the central focus in this film about a schizophrenic boy named Julien (Ewen Bremner) who works in a school for the blind. Julien lives at home with his pregnant sister Pearl (Chloë Sevigny), his brother Chris, who wrestles in his spare time; and their violent father, who slaps his children around, hoses them down with water, and offers to pay Chris ten dollars to dress up in his late mother's clothes and dance. Eventually Julien escapes from his home and interacts with people on the street.
Riproduci trailer2: 32
2 video
70 foto
CommediaCommedia darkDrammaDramma psicologico

Un ritratto del degrado della vita di Julien, un ragazzo schizofrenico con un padre prepotente, una sorella incinta di lui, un fratello violento e competitivo e una nonna sconnessa dal mondo... Leggi tuttoUn ritratto del degrado della vita di Julien, un ragazzo schizofrenico con un padre prepotente, una sorella incinta di lui, un fratello violento e competitivo e una nonna sconnessa dal mondo intero.Un ritratto del degrado della vita di Julien, un ragazzo schizofrenico con un padre prepotente, una sorella incinta di lui, un fratello violento e competitivo e una nonna sconnessa dal mondo intero.

  • Regia
    • Harmony Korine
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Harmony Korine
  • Star
    • Ewen Bremner
    • Brian Fisk
    • Chloë Sevigny
  • Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro
  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,7/10
    8107
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Harmony Korine
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Harmony Korine
    • Star
      • Ewen Bremner
      • Brian Fisk
      • Chloë Sevigny
    • 78Recensioni degli utenti
    • 43Recensioni della critica
    • 54Metascore
  • Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro
    • Premi
      • 3 vittorie e 5 candidature totali

    Video2

    Trailer
    Trailer 2:32
    Trailer
    A Guide to the Films of Harmony Korine
    Clip 2:15
    A Guide to the Films of Harmony Korine
    A Guide to the Films of Harmony Korine
    Clip 2:15
    A Guide to the Films of Harmony Korine

    Foto70

    Visualizza poster
    Visualizza poster
    Visualizza poster
    Visualizza poster
    Visualizza poster
    Visualizza poster
    Visualizza poster
    + 63
    Visualizza poster

    Interpreti principali46

    Modifica
    Ewen Bremner
    Ewen Bremner
    • Julien
    Brian Fisk
    • Pond Boy
    Chloë Sevigny
    Chloë Sevigny
    • Pearl
    • (as Chloe Sevigny)
    Werner Herzog
    Werner Herzog
    • Father
    Joyce Korine
    • Grandma
    Evan Neumann
    • Chris
    Miriam Martínez
    • Teenage Girl
    • (as Miriam Martinez)
    Edgar Erikkson
    • Bearded Man
    James Moix
    • Dancing Man
    Victor Varnado
    • Rapper
    Oliver A. Bueno
    • Bowler
    Roger Harris
    • Bowler
    Josseph Padilla
    • Bowler
    Olivia Pérez
    • Bowler
    • (as Olivia Perez)
    Freddie Perez
    • Bowler
    Carmelo Rodriguez
    • Bowler
    Chrissy Kobylak
    • Chrissy
    Carmel Gayle
    • Clothing Store Cashier
    • Regia
      • Harmony Korine
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Harmony Korine
    • Tutti gli interpreti e le troupe
    • Produzione, botteghino e altro su IMDbPro

    Recensioni degli utenti78

    6,78.1K
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    Recensioni in evidenza

    alanjj

    Messy unwatchable film

    Much is made of the fact that this is the first American film to be certified by the strictly realist Danish Dogma group. But unlike Celebration or Breaking the Waves, this film is a mess. It centers on a schizophrenic young man in Queens. The movie consists of disjointed scenes. Eventually, a plot develops when Julien's pregnant sister played by Chloe Sevigny has a miscarriage, and Julien steals the dead baby from the hospital, takes it home, and loves it. Until those scenes, the movie just goes from one place to another, occasionally engendering giggles, but not providing anything to grab hold of. Ewen Bremner, memorable in Mojo, gets totally under the skin of Julien, but total immersion by an actor in the role of a disconnected person does not make for a watchable movie.
    8paul-368

    NOT a mainstream film, but Very Interesting

    I wasn't sure how this film was going to appear when I finally saw it. I felt "gummo" was a great film, and didn't see exactly how this was going to compare. "Julien" actually seemed to surpass in reality. It was in no way a mainstream film, but on the other hand, it was not too "artsy" to be understandable. It kept my attention the entire time. I was intrigued not only by the film techniques but by the story it told. The characters were outstanding considering nothing was scripted. I thought the end of the film was very offensive when watching it, but thinking back on it now, it was handled very well and the movie was telling a story. All actors were very believable, and Svengy did a magnificent job. I think my favorite part in the film was the scene in the thrift store. I was also very happy to notice Will Oldham in the party scene and then see a thank you to him in the credits. If "gummo" intrigued you, this film will also.
    9StevePulaski

    A force of nature directing a troubled one

    Let's be brutally honest here for a second; if you choose to check out Julien Donkey-Boy after reading this review, I will consider you a brave and ambitious soul. If you like the film after watching it, I will consider you an admirable one. Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey-Boy is a difficult film to endure for ninety-nine minutes; a complex and crippling one. It twists your emotions, saddens the soul, and repulses every preconceived notion, or lack thereof, you had entering the film in the first place.

    Korine's first picture in 1997 was called Gummo, and it stands as one of the most lurid, controversial pictures of the nineties decade. The film utilized a non-linear narrative, stringing scenes together with little continuity and providing an unblinking look at a scummy town in Ohio that was ravaged by a tornado and never fully recovered. It was a true cinematic wonder, and still remains that way in 2013. Korine followed Gummo up with Julien Donkey-Boy, a film done in the style of "Dogme 95," a filmmaking movement that focused on the naturalism of dialog, story, and plot-progression by using hand-held cameras, source sound, lighting, and props. It also prohibited that directors be credited from their work, so Harmony Korine isn't even known as the official director of this film.

    The plot: Julien (Ewen Bremner) is a young, schizophrenic man who lives in his home with his extremely dysfunctional family, consisting of his instigating father (the great German director Werner Herzog), his passive brother Chris (Evan Neumann), and his sister Pearl (Chloë Sevigny), who is carrying Julien's child. We see the world through Julien's eyes, as he rarely leaves the screen for more than a minute. We see the unrelenting madness that unfolds in his home, and sometimes, we become submerged so deeply into Julien's baffling, schizophrenic mind that the film begins to become incoherent and blurry. When I say "blurry," I mean that quite literally, as the film was shot on a DV tape, converted to 16mm (already a sketchy transfer), and finally blown up to 35mm, giving the film an extremely grainy and visually washed-out look.

    There's something to be said about Ewen Bremner, who is completely terrific here in a beyond difficult role. Bremner was made famous by his role in Trainspotting, and here, he embodies a character unlike anything else currently present in his filmography. This is the kind of role veteran actors fear taking on, and this is the kind of the story veteran directors neuter or make easier to digest for the public. Not Korine; every project he has done thus far has been exercised to almost complete full-force. He's an uncompromising auteur, putting character before plot and impact before publicity to ensure long-term memorability. He's a requirement for cinema.

    When I say "uncompromising," take for example the scene where Pearl falls on the ice-rink, with lethal consequences to someone close to her. This scene is polarizing and frightening all the more. It left me with a boiling feeling of sadness, and had such an impact on me that it never left my thoughts for the remainder of the day. Take another scene, for example, when we see how Julien's father shamelessly bullies him by soaking him with the hose and demanding that he "don't shiver." Or even the scene where Julien pretends he's God and Adolf Hitler simultaneously.

    I can compare this to Gummo in the regard of shock, but Julien Donkey-Boy is showing something a tiny bit more distant from reality. To elaborate, Gummo is showing a culture and a town that very well could be real, but it isn't directly based off of any specific part of the world. Yet the problems dealt with in that film since as loss of innocence, vandalism, animal abuse, rape, etc are apparent in our society. Schizophrenia is a mental-disease with effects like those portrayed in the film, and therefore, the reality is more distorted as we are seeing it from the title character's perspective. Both pictures are viscerally gripping for the opposite reason; one shows a toxic reality, while the one merges toxic reality with an even more hypnotic and smothering one.

    Julien Donkey-Boy is a hard film to get through, and at one-hundred minutes, can be occasionally maddening. We're being bombarded with so much repulsion and depravity that it becomes a bit of an overload. With that said, the overall disjointedness and the grainy aesthetic can be a bit much, too. But all those reasons are the same reason that I liked the film so much. Korine is a force of nature, one who seems to often rebel, test, and manipulate the rules of cinema to fit his own tendencies, regardless of how explicit or inane they may be. I wouldn't have him, or this film, any other way the more I think about it.

    Starring: Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog, and Evan Neumann. Directed by: Harmony Korine.
    8mstomaso

    Somewhat reflexive presentation about schizophrenia

    Do not expect to be entertained, and do not expect to be overwhelmed by the aesthetic of this film. Julien Donkey Boy is no more beautiful than its subject. Harmony Korine, in directing and writing this film, has done exactly what he set out to do - he has created a concentrated dose of family life with schizophrenia. In saying that the experience is concentrated, what I mean is that the film uses exaggeration rather liberally in order to condense its somewhat impossibly defined subject matter. Although there are certainly interwoven story arcs for the main characters, there is no central plot, no linearity, no unfragmented reality. The film itself, therefore, is just a little unhinged.

    One of my older sisters was schizophrenic. You would have to condense a couple decades worth of her psychotic episodes into a couple of hours to get anywhere near the level of constant distress that is depicted in this film. I most closely related to the character of Pearl, Julien's pregnant sister, but recognized aspects of my own family in all of the characters. What I am trying to say is that there is certainly some truth to what this movie says and the archetypal characters portrayed, its truth may be hard to recognize if you haven't lived through it.

    Living with a schizophrenic will bring out and amplify your own nature - and if you are open to it, you will be a better person. It is also, however, fairly easy to allow the experience to overwhelm you. People who have never been exposed to schizophrenia in any but a superficial way will find most of the film's characters and vignettes very difficult to believe. I am pretty sure Korine knew this going in.

    Korine has portrayed schizophrenia in a sensitive and truthful, but nevertheless utterly disturbing and somewhat unrealistically condensed way. Every directorial decision is meant to create a sense of realism. The method is very effective, and the film is essentially successful. Julien intentionally and clearly positions its audience as voyeurs, using hand-held photography almost exclusively and allowing character- development (the bulk of the film) to dictate the pace and rhythm of every scene. All of the acting is superb, and although there are very few feel-good moments in this film, it may be somewhat cathartic for folks like me, and somewhat (painfully) enlightening for those who grew up in less dysfunctional, or more-traditionally dysfunctional, families.
    8thomaswatchesfilms

    Amazing film.

    To represent the life of a schizophrenic through the medium of film, would be quite challenging, really. How could you possibly relate the total random madness and desperate attempts at self-control of a madman onto film? One would be wise to choose Dogme 95, as the life of these unfortunate people seems to be affected by and largely governed by, a series of rigid and obtuse beliefs, regimens or rituals put in place to form some sort of foundation in an otherwise random, "crazy" existence. They then hold fast to this foundation for dear life - white knuckles. Since these "rules" they live by come from insanity in the first place, and are not typically adaptable, or flexible, as life would require them to be, everything they attempt becomes convoluted and lost in madness and confusion. And so everything is completely unsettled, because they can't adapt. Dogme 95, with its odd, rigid requirements, vis-a-vis the "Vow of Chastity" (www.dogme95.dk) goes a long way toward capturing that dynamic.

    This film comes pretty close to nailing the day-in, day-out obstacles that mentally ill people must encounter, making something as simple as a bus ride to work a harrowing adventure fraught with slopes. The whole thing reminds me of the LSD scene in "Easy Rider" with the call girls in the grave yard. That was as close as I have ever seen to a realistic depiction of an acid trip in a film (you'll have to trust me on this one folks...), and this film has the same feel of reality to it. Almost as if it were a film about a schizophrenic, directed by and acted by schizophrenics. It's amazing.

    Bremner is brilliant. I didn't even recognize him until I read the credits, and afterward I believed that he should have been awarded for this outing - just completely convincing. Almost as if this were a documentary. He just acts so completely mentally ill, it's amazing. He even somehow affects not only the dress, but the postures, facial expressions and characteristics that make him appear to be genuinely mentally ill. Wow.

    Herzog's character is just so completely weird and obtuse and out of place in our culture that he is perfect here. Makes you wonder about other people you see walking around.

    Not hugely entertaining in terms of plot, but a real treat for someone who wants to be compelled by the film maker's art. Harmony Korine is way smarter than me and you, folks. And I think it's way cool he can get his hands on film equipment. He is pushing the envelope, which is a lot more than I can say for most directors. Safe is boring.

    Regard this film in the context of the first scene when Julien has his encounter with the "Pond Boy" and a plot emerges. What we see within the first two or three minutes is just astoundingly disturbing, and will clearly have consequences on the rest of Julien's life - all of their lives. Relate the rest of the film back to the first scene, and it's really rather sad. Everything that ensues has that hanging over it. You know that no matter what those people do, some day there will be a knock on the door and everything will unravel. Or will it? How could they be any more odd and troubled than they already are?

    Altri elementi simili

    Trash Humpers
    4,9
    Trash Humpers
    Mister Lonely
    6,4
    Mister Lonely
    Gummo
    6,6
    Gummo
    Baby Invasion
    4,6
    Baby Invasion
    Aggro Dr1ft
    5,6
    Aggro Dr1ft
    The Diary of Anne Frank Part II
    6,1
    The Diary of Anne Frank Part II
    Beach Bum - Una vita in fumo
    5,5
    Beach Bum - Una vita in fumo
    Kids
    7,0
    Kids
    Act Da Fool
    6,6
    Act Da Fool
    Spring Breakers - Una vacanza da sballo
    5,3
    Spring Breakers - Una vacanza da sballo
    Corporate Ghost
    7,9
    Corporate Ghost
    Mifune
    7,1
    Mifune

    Trama

    Modifica

    Lo sapevi?

    Modifica
    • Quiz
      This is the first American film to be certified by Dogme '95.
    • Citazioni

      Pearl: Keep brushing your teeth and you will always be a happy person.

    • Connessioni
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Fight Club/The Straight Story/Julien Donkey-Boy/The Story of Us (1999)
    • Colonne sonore
      O, mio babbino caro
      from "Gianni Schicchi"

      Composed by Giacomo Puccini

      Performed by Brussels Philharmonic (as BRT Philharmonic Orchestra (Brussels))

      Soprano: Miriam Gauci

    I più visti

    Accedi per valutare e creare un elenco di titoli salvati per ottenere consigli personalizzati
    Accedi

    Domande frequenti

    • How long is Julien Donkey-Boy?
      Powered by Alexa

    Dettagli

    Modifica
    • Data di uscita
      • 13 settembre 2000 (Francia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Sito ufficiale
      • Official site
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Dogme # 6 - Julien Donkey-Boy
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • New York, New York, Stati Uniti
    • Aziende produttrici
      • 391 Productions
      • Forensic Films
      • Independent Pictures (II)
    • Vedi altri crediti dell’azienda su IMDbPro

    Botteghino

    Modifica
    • Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
      • 85.400 USD
    • Lordo in tutto il mondo
      • 92.442 USD
    Vedi le informazioni dettagliate del botteghino su IMDbPro

    Specifiche tecniche

    Modifica
    • Tempo di esecuzione
      1 ora 34 minuti
    • Colore
      • Color
    • Mix di suoni
      • Dolby SR

    Contribuisci a questa pagina

    Suggerisci una modifica o aggiungi i contenuti mancanti
    Chloë Sevigny in Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
    Divario superiore
    By what name was Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) officially released in India in English?
    Rispondi
    • Visualizza altre lacune di informazioni
    • Ottieni maggiori informazioni sulla partecipazione
    Modifica pagina

    Altre pagine da esplorare

    Visti di recente

    Abilita i cookie del browser per utilizzare questa funzione. Maggiori informazioni.
    Scarica l'app IMDb
    Accedi per avere maggiore accessoAccedi per avere maggiore accesso
    Segui IMDb sui social
    Scarica l'app IMDb
    Per Android e iOS
    Scarica l'app IMDb
    • Aiuto
    • Indice del sito
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • Prendi in licenza i dati di IMDb
    • Sala stampa
    • Pubblicità
    • Lavoro
    • Condizioni d'uso
    • Informativa sulla privacy
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, una società Amazon

    © 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.