LeBlanc discovers Rivera has purchased 27 vehicles with taxpayer money at the cost of about 35-40 vehicles. Not all movies preach, for example, action movies are usually more about the entertainment of watching good triumph over evil. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. She introduces LeBlanc (Zoe Kazan), a young investigator who is hired to dig up dirt on Rivera. Back at Janes hotel, Ben calls and informs her there will be a protest downtown. Since Im reviewing this film for its DVD release, Ive already taken into consideration the opinions of other reviewers. He is currently 28 points behind. Yes, this is a movie where a diabolical character is given the surname Candy, and what can you really say? His name is too long with her so she just calls him Eddie. She moved to a mountain cabin, stopped smoking, got sober, and started doing pottery. : What The Hell Happened? February 27, 2023. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. Outside, a large groan is heard. Its only when the camera is on top of him that we see the pool of blood. But it seems as though screenwriter Peter Straughan and director David Gordon Green realized near the end that theyd written a feature-length film celebrating consultants ability to install a lying, oligarchic, IMF-beholden stooge to a South American presidency, and decided they ought to wrap things up more palatably. For people who want the vastly more interesting real history of Americas misbegotten meddling in Bolivia just one chapter, of course, in a much larger global story Boyntons film is out there, and so is what happened later. In a restaurant, Jane sits alone until Candy sits next to her. On a campaign bus heading toward a remote Bolivia location on a small dirt road, they discover Riveras bus is directly ahead of them. At least not right away. She showed how American marketing techniques never before used in that region steered a desperate country towards a rich, arrogant former president Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada (Goni), who proved catastrophically out of touch. Jane expresses to Ben that she still gets nauseous whenever she sees Castillo. 17-Down, Three Letters: Party for One artist Carly ___ Jepsen. In a Netflix comedy by Katharine McPhees stepdaughter. She may get some help in getting into the mindset of that indigenous poor through a campaign volunteer named Eddie, a Castillo loyalist since he was a young boy much to the chagrin of his friends. So I knew that, in this case, I would just have to find out for myself. The interviewer says shes been known by many names, most notably Calamity Jane. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. A llama is shown getting hit by a car. What makes the campaign more personal for her is that Pat Candy is working for Rivera--their professional and personal history goes all the way back to her first-ever political campaign. Plot out uproarious long-shot tricks against his opponents that always seem to work out even better than hoped? The Weeknd responded to a Rolling Stone story claiming the show is a rape fantasy with a clip of his character calling the mag irrelevant. Sometimes its melodramaticthink the sinister Ryan Gosling and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Ides of March, or most notably, Kevin Spaceys snaky Frank Underwood, the master strategist and politician bundled into one on House of Cards. When Jane leaves the meeting with LeBlanc, she instead instructs her to dig up dirt on Castillo, their own candidate. She doesnt respond. And yet in David Gordon Greens tale of political fixers, Our Brand Is Crisis, he wants to find hope. January 14, 2016. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. Bodine and her crew join Candy on the way to the airport. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. There are too many balls in the air, too many uncontrollable outside factors, for any singular figure to get all of this under control, be 10 steps ahead of the curve, and successfully and confidently blaze a trail from pre-candidacy to election to dignified leadership. Sandra Bullock (who shares producer credits with, among others, George Clooney and Grant Heslov) is the reclusive political strategist Calamity Jane Bodine, who turned her back on her profession after one dirty trick too many. Bodines character loosely channels celebrity political consultant James Carville, one of the Americans who worked on the 2002 Bolivian campaign and a consistent fascination of Hollywood. The news that Jane will be pitted against political consultant Pat Candy, with whom she has a past, is enough to get her away from the wheel. By Manohla Dargis. A battle-hardened American political consultant is sent to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate. At a Rivera campaign stop, Jane is seen talking to Candy. Andrew O'Hehir is executive editor of Salon. There is something deeply disturbing about American political strategists helping an unpopular politician return back to presidency in a country as different as Bolivia. It is only the knowing, salty political consultant who can bridge the gap between political reality and tidy fictional narrative. "- Castillo: This llama will lead us toward prosperity. She finally just decided to get off the carousel. "Our Brand Is Crisis" is a fictionalized treatment of the 2005 documentary of the same name, which focused on Bill Clinton's former campaign manager James Carville. Jane wakes up in her hotel room. The next scene shows the state department giving an anti-cocaine speech, which will help Volasco. But the filmmakers invent an antagonist of near-mythic stature to make her lust for a win: Billy Bob Thorntons Pat Candy, who works for the leading candidate. Jane says that Pat Candy is behind the fliers. And sometimesin fact, I daresay oftenyou know about a half hour into a film that youre going to have to censure it. The big reason it works, though, is that it takes its premise from Rachel Boyntons phenomenal (but little-known) 2005 documentary of the same name. . The boys (all adult age) are living alone because their parents have both died. That is, of course, when you can get her out of 'retirement' and give her a good reason to . That remains a question shrouded in mystery, but we could probably come up with some decent guesses. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. Arriving at Janes house, she explains she has quit smoking and drinking and has focused on pottery. Jane insists to the campaign team that this was set up by Candy. But it never keeps the energy up, steering into forced visual gags, dull spells of earnestness, and ponderous backstory psychologythe viewer never is quite sure who really did what to whom in the Candy-Bodine love-hate relationship. Can Hollywood find a way to take the political consultant character in a new direction? Well, that would be you and me both before and after. Its cute for a while. The emotional investment Green wants to make in Jane feels misplaced, especially since he also wants to celebrate moments when she behaves abhorrently. Jane yells out the window to Candy that Rivera has dropped 6 points. "[25] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Goni was in effect the candidate of the Washington consensus, the guy who would bring a small, fractious and deeply divided country into the established international economic order. Exactly who decided that a widely disliked candidate in such a small country merited such attention, alongside such star GCS clients as Tony Blair, the Israeli Labor Party and the Canadian Liberal Party? The cinematic trope has retroactively kept a light on devilish George H.W. All this makes for mid-grade entertainment value, at best. Castillo's bus is stopped by a group of protesters who don't want the International Monetary Fund in Bolivia. He is a crook. (The daughter killed herself as a result.). The pacing is lickety-split, the talk is boisterous, and the cast is all aces. During a debate prep session, Castillo and Jane engage in a heated argument in which Jane says they are all just puppets in the political game, and that nobody is in charge. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. While it would have been nice if the supporting characters were just as well developed (Candys entire purpose seems to be to enter a scene, taunt Jane, and then leave), Jane is a compelling figure, and its unfortunate that the film doesnt match her complexity. Thats the problem with focusing a story on the diabolical strategist, the one mythical figure in this godforsaken political system whos got it all figured out. Before I address the message, Ill review the content. Jane is so nauseous from her travel and the elevation she leaves and is heard throwing up. Castillo tells her she needs professional help for wanting to do anything to win. The poor reviews of Our Brand is Crisis are puzzling, since its one of the few non-documentary films to show successfully a) what rip-roaring fun politics can be when its only about marketing and b) what terrible things can happen when its only about marketing. In the mix is a fine supporting cast including a sensational Thornton . The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. He says the people in the village dont understand that yet. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. It received mixed reviews, despite Bullock's performance being largely praised, and was a box office disappointment. Later shell claim he got the room intentionally to get under her skin. Candy calls Jane and invites her to go out again. Later, two senior advisors argue the crisis brand may have worked with the current crowd, but it wont with the working class. Politics is a dirty business, but Our Brand Is Crisis doesn't stick its hands into the muck sufficiently to be as entertaining or stinging as it could be. [27] Peter Debruge from Variety thought that Jane Bodine, played by Bullock, "is easily one of the best female roles of the last 10 years,"[28] while Benjamn Lee from The Guardian wrote that "Bullock seems blissfully unaware of the films faults and delivers a performance that expertly plays on her strengths - her comic timing, wasted in lesser, plane-ready comedies, is on top form and she imbues her neurotic character with more than the thinly sketched quirks provided on the page; she commands a room when needed, perfects scenes of physical comedy and even turns a climax of forced sentiment into something poignant and believable"; he concluded that "while the film is patchy, Bullock's brand is confidently crisis-free". Castillo says its in the past, and that his wife knows about it, but Jane claims the perception will be that hes an adulterer. This is a competent film that shows how foxy political campaigns can be. She describes the Daisy advertisement, which ran exactly once, that turned the election for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater. Um, yes. One of the llamas is hit by a truck. Jane invites them out to dinner with the campaign team. (A heavy back story is subsequently revealed, followed by an ever heavier back story to the back story.) Entertaining and provocative, Our Brand Is Crisis is a satirical political drama. You never find out. It needs a strongman who can handle a crisis. She explains its not relevant whether its true. In the city, Eddie is hanging Castillo posters. If youve been following the drama in the House, the inability of most every Republican presidential candidate to lift off, or really any news from American politics over the last 10 or 239 years, you might have noticed that politics is difficult. Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. In its best moments, Our Brand Is Crisis is reminiscent of Wag the Dog; it knows how fucked politics is and acts accordingly. [23], Eric Kohn from Indiewire wrote that the movie is all about Bullock's performance, saying "she imbues her part with a ferocious energy that constantly elevates the straightforward material". ts=String.fromCharCode(60); Preview", "Star-Driven Casualties 'Our Brand Is Crisis' & 'Burnt' At The B.O. Jane says There is only one wrong in this, and that is losing. But at the end, the team realizes how wrong they werein a shocking way. Her words are intercut with footage of newspaper headlines and, oddly, shots of Bullocks hands molding clay at a pottery wheel. Janes sidekicksplayed by Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd, Scoot McNairy, and Zoe Kazancant make a dent in Castillos mixture of machismo, cluelessness, and the kind of self-serving patriarchal worldview that regards Bolivias indigenous population as a bunch of children who dont know whats good for them. So those questions remain in the dim and dusty background, behind the quasi-hilarious dirty tricks, the long nights of booze, the almost-condescending interactions with indigenous Bolivians and the rivalrous relationship tinged with both tragedy and Eros between Jane and Thorntons Mephistophelean (and distinctly Carville-like) Pat Candy. Well, this is the rambunctious comedy version of Our Brand Is Crisis, framed by director David Gordon Green and the British writer Peter Straughan not with a dead boy but the personal odyssey of a fictional character. Send your questions or comments about this or any other spoiler to: THEMOVIESPOILER.com. Sometimes the portrayal is satiricalRobert DeNiros spin doctor in Wag the Dog, the assassin-like Dylan McDermott in The Campaign, the sex-addicted Kathryn Hahn in televisions Parks and Recreation. She is unable to breath and is using an oxygen mask on the car ride to campaign headquarters. Filmcast "Our Brand is Crisis" November 6, 2015 Laura Seaman Features , Filmcast , Movies [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join Laura Seaman as she reviews " Our Brand is Crisis " and previews " Spectre " and " The Peanuts Movie " on this week's episode of Filmcast. Then Jane figures out a hook: To make Castillo more attractive than the frontrunner (a young, engaged populist who represents hope and change), she has to sell the idea that the country doesnt need someone, well, likable. Bullock plays Calamity Jane Bodine, a legendary practitioner of the dark political arts who comes out of semi-retirement to navigate the hapless ex-president back to the top job. Please share it with your friends rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); Jane says its just a carousel and she was going around and around. This film isnt as dark as Burnt, and has more amusing moments, including some comic relief, but still shouldnt be classified as a comedy. In the following months, the team exercises a strategy of "declaring a crisis". She reveals she has had mental issues before and suffered from depression. All rights reserved. Thats why Hollywood had to invent a character with such powers: the knowing, salty political consultant. Jane insist they go negative in spite of this, but Castillo says no. Let me know how that goes. Jane then joins the mass of people who are walking toward the city. Rivera then repeats the quote Jane told Candy. She then asks who knows English and only a handful of people raise their hands, so LeBlanc must translate. The police arrive and the demonstration quickly turns into a riot. "Our Brand Is Crisis" is being released by Warner Bros., but was largely funded by Participant Media, which produces what it calls "socially relevant films and documentaries." In other words,. An SUV carrying the Castillo advisors sees him and stop to give him a ride home, insisted upon by Jane. She cares about winning, and the movie reinforces the narrative that politics is just a game. I have to rate it Offensive, due to its foul language, several blasphemies, and Sandra Bullocks bare hiny. Our Brand Is Crisis review - dirty political dealings in South America. But at the end, their methods are exposed to the viewers as evil. And in the real Bolivian election of 02, there was no rivalry between warring American spin doctors working for different candidates, because Goni was the only candidate who got that kind of help, in clear preference to his populist opponents on both the right and left. This password will be used to sign into all, Okay, TikTok, You Can Calm Down About Aubrey Plaza at the SAG Awards Now, All 165 Pink Floyd Songs Ranked, From Worst to Best. Castillo wins the vote by a small margin. [4] It was theatrically released by Warner Bros. on October 30, 2015. However it is better and more gratifying to win the heart of a nation and keep it. Candy gives her a condescending compliment and tells her he plans to pleasure himself thinking about her when he returns home. He does exactly that, to Janes delight, when explaining hes not close to his son, but he wishes he was, with tears in his eyes. That is now the title of the Bullock movie directed by indie-film veteran David Gordon Green and written by Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), which is also set during a Bolivian presidential campaign and stars Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Scoot McNairy, Ann Dowd and Zoe Kazan as Bullocks rivals or colleagues in the Machiavellian business of reinventing candidates and reshaping public opinion. On a bus trip to a mountainous countryside, protesters start throwing rocks at the bus. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Scoot McNairy, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd and Joaquim de Almeida. Honestly, I didnt know what to expect, on a number of levels. The front-runner, Victor Rivera, is a populist who is appealing to the basest emotions of that poor electorate. All of them, except Bodine, have already taken jobs as political consultants in other countries. It is only after Bodine arranges for the distribution of a flyer accusing Castillo of a long-ago affair (and blaming it on the opposition) does she finally get him to agree to smear his opponents. Rivera is on, holding two babies during a campaign stop, confessing how hes doubly lucky, and promises to run a positive campaign. The women of, Sam Levinson and the Weeknd Allegedly Turned, Theres No Red Button You Can Push to Stop. [6] On September 15, Billy Bob Thornton joined the film,[7] and on September 18, Anthony Mackie joined the cast. [2/4], Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, would be perfect humanist, socialist, anti-capitalist propaganda except its a bit disjointed Abhorrent at least 61 obscenities rear female nudity when woman on bus moons other bus, crass, grimy and not sure of its own message burdens itself with foul language and sexual allusions, spoiling some pretty great performances from Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton. Candy can be seen watching the action in the background. Either the character repents, and you have a cornball ending, or the character doesnt, and you have a soapy endorsement of sociopathy. [13] On December 11, 2013, Sandra Bullock was in early talks to star in the film, while Clooney chose not to direct, and his starring in the film was also unconfirmed at that time. Whats ultimately most frustrating is the evidence that the makers of this movie were fully capable of creating something as smart and ruthless as its lead character. Janes conversion, alas, is over-broad and signaled from the start. She then offers money to the driver to overtake the Rivera bus. Their main tactic is to emphasize the many problems of the economy and present Castillo as the solution. It already has. Things you buy through our links may earnNew Yorka commission. She really truly does.). Jane is goaded by patronizing men into proving herself in ways shes not proud of. Illustration by Hudson Christie. Jane is talking with Nell, and insults her about her dedication to the campaign. Greens last three picturesPrince Avalanche, Joe, and Manglehornfelt like personal indie films, and Our Brand Is Crisis seems like an attempt to reach back into the mainstream with a mix of comedy and pathos, and yet it also comes off like a journeyman feature. This satire, directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay by Peter Straughan, suffers from deficits of wit, wisdom, focus, filmmaking expertise and appropriate tone. The opposition's top political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy. In my review of the documentary, I wrote: The process of framing Goni to look like something he isnt could be the stuff of a rambunctious campaign comedy like Primary Colors or, for that matter, the documentary The War Room And parts of Our Brand Is Crisis are darkly amusing. Janes cynicismshe regards herself, the candidate, and everyone else as a pawnis so over-the-top that it threatens to derail Our Brand is Crisis: Who cares about the election if she doesnt? Carville and Greenberg won that election for Goni, after shifting the entire theme of his campaign to the crisis mantra, but maybe they should have vetted their candidate a little better. By what name was Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) officially released in India in English? The R-rating is because of the language. As a result of this, Castillo agrees to start running a negative campaign. Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) Plot Showing all 5 items Jump to: Summaries (4) Synopsis (1) Summaries A battle-hardened American political consultant is sent to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate. We get on Janes adrenaline kick when she wins, but the movie rarely questions the deeper ramifications of her actions. Castillo promises them that he will not invite the IMF without a public referendum. Our Brand is Crisis may be director David Gordon Green's most sterile picture yet, but it's redeemed somewhat by Sandra Bullock's lead performance, as well as a talented ensemble cast . In her eyes, her job is done. Back on the bus, Castillo explain to Eddie that an effective leader is a father to the people, and that sometimes a father must be strict. The villagers are angrily blocking the bus, and Castillo, against the wishes of Jane, gets off to talk with them. And even hes not even that close. He takes a room across the balcony in Janes hotel, where he can meet her stare, undress her with his eyes, and psych her out. That kind of consumer response is pretty remarkable, and it also says something about each brand's crisis management strategies. Jane says the llama cant stand the commercial so badly, he killed himself. She opens with footage of an anti-government riot that came less than a year after the election. In 2002, Bolivian politician Pedro Gallo hires American James Carville's political consulting firm, Greenberg Carville Shrum, to help him win the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. Not seeing what she highlighted, Candy asks about it. What part should morality play in politics? A lethally effective charm delivery system, Sandra Bullock doesn't need to do much to win you over. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. As president in the mid-90s, he had pursued a controversial two-level strategy, extending constitutional rights and policy reforms aimed at Bolivias large indigenous population while also embarking on a widespread campaign of privatization that sold off state-owned industries and natural resources to foreign capital. In case the true story behind the baffling and approximately well-intentioned Sandra Bullock star vehicle Our Brand Is Crisis makes any difference, here it is: Way back in the innocent days of 2002 (Im kidding about innocent), the high-powered political consulting firm Greenberg Carville Shrum parachuted into Bolivia to take up the cause of a struggling presidential candidate named Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada, universally known as Goni. Rachel Boynton, a documentary director whose work focuses on ideology, politics and power (her most recent movie, Big Men, is about the global workings of the oil industry), came along and made an extraordinary film about that campaign, whose title was drawn from a telling phrase coined by one of the GCS consultants. She comes to realize shes better than that. Does he drink too much? A knock on the door reveals Eddie, saddened and angry, who tells her about the IMF plan. Have they learned nothing? Jane gets blasted, leaks misinformation, vandalizes Candys room, and sabotages his candidates rallies the way he sabotaged her candidates. Maybe Carville and the Clintonocracy were empowering democracy after all, even if it wasnt quite the variety they intended. Click here for all of our TIFF 2015 coverage thus far or peruse links to our reviews below: Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The pacing is. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. [5] On September 11, Scoot McNairy was added to the cast. Our Brand Is Crisis grossed $7 million in North America and $1.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $8.6 million, against a budget of $28 million. Goni fled the country five days later, and now lives in exile in the U.S., which has refused to extradite him to Bolivia to face trial for extrajudicial killings and other crimes against humanity. Although I hasten to add that even by the standards of Bullocks implacable, steel-jawed underacting this is a dull performance. He denies being a member of the cult. That was almost certainly the final straw. 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