- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Alliance Films
- Release Date: July 1 2001
- Run Time: 94 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000059HA5
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#21,910 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #79 in DVD > Special Interests > Parenting & Childcare > Pregnancy & Childbirth
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Julien Donkey-Boy is a fascinating journey into the mind of an adolescent schizophrenic. Scenes of actual poetry and beauty (highlighted by director Harmony Korine's inventive use of editing and sound) intersect with those of painfully desperate realism, in order to paint an intense portrait of one man's paranoid schizophrenia. Watch as Julien's internal struggle increases in intensity until the film's shocking and bizarrely transcendent conclusion.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
fun with mediocrity,
By M (CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Julien Donkey-Boy (Widescreen) (DVD)
I think that there should be a new rule added to the Dogma 95.And that, of course, would be: You have to be a good film maker to begin with. I find Harmony to be quiet charming when I watch him pontificate about changing the direction of cinema and achieving something real and groundbreaking (it's like I'm back in high school!!!) but then to sit through this movie really really, put a test on my nerves. This is one of those films that you watch all the way through for the SOLE purpose of feeling like you can really go to town when you say that it was bad, that the ending was anything but "transcendant" and that just because you find a bunch of oddities to cast, doesn't make anyone, at all, care. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Cloe Sevigny does bring a nice relaxed, and as much as this film would allow, intrigueing nature to her part, but that's as good as I can say about it. And just for future referance, letting actors improvise their scenes is generally a POOR DIRECTOR'S CHOICE. The actors will, 9 tens out of 10, get into a fight, and/or just repeat themselves, yes, repeat, repeat, repeat the same variation of a line over and over and over again. Watch this film, then watch Buffalo 66 and then hammer a nail through your forehead. I gave this 1 star: one for Cloe and an imaginary one for Werner Herzog, who wasn't good by any means, but he is Werner Herzog, after all. THIS IS DRECK!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Inspiring,
By John (canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Julien Donkey-Boy (Widescreen) (DVD)
I think we should celebrate these types of films. This has been done very well. Just like any good film, there has been lots of thought put into what type of camera work...for example when time Julien's face is shown walking down the street with his curly hair glowing in that surreal sort of way. Maybe it's that I'm a very accepting person but the 'disturbing' scenes in this didn't bother me at all. It definitely was not boring, I found it very entertaining, which is the purpose of a movie, is it not? And I felt relieved to be watching something different, being a dogma 95 film (I think it is?). I'm not too sure of the rules in dogma but this is an independent/underground type film for sure. Anyway, let's not complain about a film like this because the intentions are good and it itself is good, which compared to the rest of movies out today is very nice to see. I give it a five. Loved it.-Cheers
5.0 out of 5 stars
Harmony Korine is a Wunderkind,
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This review is from: Julien Donkey-Boy (Widescreen) (DVD)
I can't believe how young this guy is. He was eighteen when he wrote KIDS. That just blows me away. KIDS is a great film, but it is a Larry Clark film. This is a Harmony Korine film and it is truly something to behold. I am willing to make the bold statement that Korine is the best American film maker making moivies today. Why? Because his films are so bold. He has faith in his own aesthetic and that gives his work a sincerity, an originality, and a power that most films lack. He has a vision and then he realizes it. This weird little skateboarder is an artist. This is a movie for the true lover of the medium. If you have to have a linear plot line, pretty characters, or car chases, this movie is not for you. If you like convention, you will not like Harmony's movies. But if you are a fan of honest, iconoclastic art, buy Julien Donkey Boy. I loved Werner Herzog as the crazy father.
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