FILM SCREENING at creative hub de IJsbrand
Thursday, April 9 at 20:00

Freely accessible to all cinephiles!
bring something to eat or drink

Sietske Tjallingii (film committee of the IJsbrand) starts this week with:

Mister Lonely by Harmony Korine
(director of Gummo and Julien Donkey Boy and writer of Kids)

Mister Lonely marks Korine's comeback. It is a zany film in which a Mexican Michael Jackson impersonator moves into a Scottish country house otherwise inhabited by impersonators of, among others, Little Red Riding Hood, Madonna, and Laurel and Hardy. Queen Elizabeth sleeps there with the Pope. Marilyn Monroe sticks with Charlie Chaplin; their little daughter imitates Shirley Temple. Korine's friend Werner Herzog plays Father Umbrillo, who urges a group of nuns to jump out of a plane on a mountain bike to put their faith in God to the test.

It is not a film for everyone, warns Korine. 'People might be disappointed because the film is completely different from my other films, which most people hated at the time anyway. So be it. I can't please everyone.'

In the Netherlands, no distributor has yet dared to release the unbalanced but memorable film in cinemas, and the programmers of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where Korine's earlier work had been shown, also turned up their noses at it.
But not us!

freely accessible to all cinephiles
bring something to eat or drink

Thursday, April 9 at 20:00
in breeding ground de IJsbrand
Berberisstraat 16
Amsterdam North
Buikslotermeer ferry + 5 min bike ride



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