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. This is yet another film that could have been PG (maybe PG-13 due to a mooning scene) with a cleaner script. David Gordon Greens uneven Wag the Dog-style satirical political romp takes both its title and theme from Rachel Boyntons 2005 documentary about the role played by the gun-for-hire American consultants in the 2002 Bolivian elections. A screenshot shows Castillo at 8% with Rivera leading with 36%. I love stories of politics as theaterthe stagecraft, scripting, wardrobe choices, and focus group testing of absurd commercials. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. In David Gordon Green's OUR BRAND IS CRISIS, the film is obviously in existence to point out how politics, no matter the nation, are used in gaining votes from image rather than truth. Jane wants to overtake it. On April 22, 2007, it was announced that George Clooney would produce a dramatization of the 2005 documentary Our Brand Is Crisis, along with Grant Heslov, and Warner Bros. would handle American distribution rights. But Boynton has done her own framing: This campaign is a precursor to tragedy. Montage of the press reporting throughout the day. Instead, both end up outside of their hotel rooms so they can see each other. A knock on the door reveals Eddie, saddened and angry, who tells her about the IMF plan. Besser. When Jane leaves the meeting with LeBlanc, she instead instructs her to dig up dirt on Castillo, their own candidate. A senior advisor expresses dismay that she has been hired but all shes doing is sunning herself. 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. Billy Bob Thornton employs his well-honed sneering shtick and Sandra Bullock makes the role her own in Our Brand Is Crisis. She is then seen in the middle of the protest, and sees Eddie. There is something deeply disturbing about American political strategists helping an unpopular politician return back to presidency in a country as different as Bolivia. Yet you really have to read between the lines and dig into the subtext of Straughans screenplay to perceive the issues that drove Boyntons film. I get it -- Green and Straughan and Participant were trying to make a Sandra Bullock movie that Warner Bros. can put onto thousands of theater screens. So yes, throughout the film, the protagoniststhe ones portrayed as good guysuse communistic propaganda. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. "Our Brand Is Crisis" is both the title of and a line from a new political comedy about American consultants who take over a Bolivian presidential campaign. It also sets up a Hollywood ending that all but wrecks the movie. She tells Nell she needs to pull some string with her contacts at the Bolivian State Department, in order to take votes from Castillo, and give them to Volasco (another candidate). The way Jane and her team approaches politics makes them good at their job, but it also makes them cynical people, and the movie rarely questions their behavior until the very end when it does so in the most heavy-handed manner possible. Plot out uproarious long-shot tricks against his opponents that always seem to work out even better than hoped? She reveals she has had mental issues before and suffered from depression. At an evening event, Castillo is shaking hands with people behind a barrier. Some said it was insightful. Nevertheless, his brothers are much more skeptical about Castillo. Outside, a large groan is heard. But as a whole, "Our Brand is Crisis" is a messy affair that sputters along when it should be humming with assured cynical momentum. At first Jane is defensive, claiming that she was just doing her job, but soon her heart is softened as she realizes the mess she helped to make. And sometimesin fact, I daresay oftenyou know about a half hour into a film that youre going to have to censure it. She doesnt respond. Jane is seen having a moment of introspection. The firm brings in "Calamity" Jane Bodine to manage Castillo's fledging campaign. Played for laughs? It casts a skeptical eye at the gospel of globalization thats preached by Janes team, but its outrage is more directed at cynicism than at any specific system. 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. And even hes not even that close. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. But if you can be wary of those things, I do recommend this film. Underneath it all plays Ten Years Afters Id Love To Change The World, the absolute nadir of Woodstock-era protest rock; the movies sound editor deserves some kind of award for smoothly deleting the songs opening volley against dykes and fairies.. Password must be at least 8 characters and contain: As part of your account, youll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime. Mick LaSalle. On a table she finds a Rivera doll. 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. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Scoot McNairy, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd and Joaquim de Almeida. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Arriving at Janes house, she explains she has quit smoking and drinking and has focused on pottery. But at the end, their methods are exposed to the viewers as evil. She looks across the large foyer to see Candy sitting outside his room. Soon enough she is smoking, drinking, and scheming again, signaling to the viewer that shes back to her antiheroic winning ways. The American consultants, not knowing the language or the culture of Bolivia, are persuaded by Bodine, a burned out veteran of American politics, to follow a strategy of smear campaigning to make up for their candidate's shortcomings. 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. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. But once in Bolivia, shes sidelined by acute altitude sickness (the flight down is accompanied by a primer on the geography and general stressed disposition of the place), and hence unable to immediately show her Sun-Tzu-informed genius to uptight candidate Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida). Instead of superhuman strength or projectile spider-webs, this puppet master has in her arsenal a penchant for drinking and smoking, instant access to the perfect quip at the perfect time, and a convenient lack of morality. At the start of the campaign, which he's hired an American consulting firm to run, he is 28 points behind in the polls and running sixth in the crowded field, he, a globalist, largely seen by the indigenous poor majority, representing approximately 50 percent of the population, as being an elitist, out of touch with their needs and thus generally disliked as a personality. Castillo had been coached by Jane that if he senses any emotion or tears, to look directly into the camera. All the stupid tricks are here, the ones people laugh at onscreen in the context of a film like this but fall for in spite of themselves on their TVs during football games. Its also revealed that Candy is the one who ran over the llama during the commercial shoot. She describes the Daisy advertisement, which ran exactly once, that turned the election for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater. Inspired by the 2005 documentary of the . Critic Kenneth Turan has this review. Heres my idea for a Hollywood ending: People are inspired to seek out Boyntons great documentary, which throws a spotlight on one of Americas least-known but most consequential exports. As one of his first actions, he invites the IMF into Bolivia, thereby breaking his promise. 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. His name is too long with her so she just calls him Eddie. Violence: Moderate / Profanity: Heavy / Sex/Nudity: Moderate to heavys. Facing a general strike and a series of confrontations between soldiers and protesters that left at least 67 civilians dead, Goni imposed martial law in October 2003, and the U.S. State Department issued a statement offering its full support. Castillo and the campaign team are on the outdoor set of a commercial for the Senator. [3], The film opened on October 30, 2015, alongside Burnt and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. OUR BRAND IS CRISIS barely holds together as the story moves from campaign incident to campaign incident. Beyond needing to adjust to her relocation to La Paz however temporary, Jane knows that she has to transform the thinking of the populace to making them want Castillo as their leader as opposed to changing Castillo to something he inherently is not. But every once in a while, you come across a movie that seems to be driving an evil message all the way through, and then suddenly the ending takes a moral turn and shows that the protagonists were wrong. January 14, 2016. Negative ads are now running for Castillos campaign. Now, the film is so heavily fictionalized that it's much more an emotive or thematic . They approach each other and she just smiles. Let me know how that goes. Jane then joins the mass of people who are walking toward the city. She quotes, It may be alright to have a power that is based on guns. You want to know how the Janes of the world happen. Um, yes. However, when two strategists for a struggling Bolivian presidential campaign pique her interest, she goes down to the South American country to see if she should get back in the fight. After a traumatizing career as a political campaign consultant, Bodine has retired to the snowy mountains, where she doesnt smoke and makes bowls. When Bullocks passionately advocating goes negative, or Thorntons smirkingly plays Mephistopheles to her from across their hotel balconytheyre close enough to speak to each other directly, but insist on staying on their cell phonesthe movie builds up an infectious energy. There are dozens of pottery jars and bowls covering the walls. 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. 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. Joaquim de Almeida - Castillo. 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. Our Brand is Crisis (2015) (964) 6.1 1 h 47 min 2015 X-Ray R. A Bolivian presidential candidate failing in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist Jane Bodine. 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. Jane is on the set but is only seen in the background on a lounge chair, still looking unwell. [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. 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. Nell explains that Castillos opponent, Rivera, has hired her old arch nemesis, Pat Candy (played by Billy Bob Thornton). By Manohla Dargis. That kind of consumer response is pretty remarkable, and it also says something about each brand's crisis management strategies. We get on Janes adrenaline kick when she wins, but the movie rarely questions the deeper ramifications of her actions. On a bus trip to a mountainous countryside, protesters start throwing rocks at the bus. 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? Since 2013, the study of English and history has dropped by a third; the number of STEM degrees, meanwhile, is soaring. The deception disgusts her. There is very little violence. Maybe, kinda. I think you pull it, Joshua Jackson says to Lizzy Caplan sensually. Its pretty powerful, actually. One of the llamas is hit by a truck. Terms of Service apply. "Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders. Thankfully, were usually too wrapped up in Bullocks great performance to mind the films cognitive dissonance. Maybe Carville and the Clintonocracy were empowering democracy after all, even if it wasnt quite the variety they intended. Its only when the camera is on top of him that we see the pool of blood. Its great fun. It already has. [26] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale. 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. When Bodine realizes that she brought a liar into office, she has the car stopped and leaves to join Eduardo. Thats why in a time of ever-greater political chaos, the character rings so false. He tells a story about a campaign run by Adlai Stevenson in which Stevenson is told everything thinking person would vote for him, to which Stevenson replies that is not enough. Answer, Should Christians seek political power or should we only focus on evangelism? 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. In a Netflix comedy by Katharine McPhees stepdaughter. [5] On September 11, Scoot McNairy was added to the cast. Later Castillo is heard instructing interest rates to be raised to 15%. That remains a question shrouded in mystery, but we could probably come up with some decent guesses. There's only one wrong in this, only one, and that is losing!". if (window.self != window.top) {nf=''} else {nf='NF/'}; One woman says he has a weird smile. OUR BRAND IS CRISIS NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Jason The film starts with Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) being interviewed. The emotional investment Green wants to make in Jane feels misplaced, especially since he also wants to celebrate moments when she behaves abhorrently. Realizing that her candidate, Senator Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida) cant win by being likable, they decide to use fear as their issue, sell that Bolivia is a nation in crisis, and hes the only many that can save it. In her eyes, her job is done. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. Um, yes. An young actress expresses concern with her part in the ad, which requires her to be caught by Castillo. But when youre reviewing a political drama, you have to be careful to pay close attention. While Rivera is still speaking aboard a train, Jane poses as a worker for the Rivera campaign and tells the conductor the speech is over. George Clooney and Grant Heslov produced. Shes convinced to step up when she discovers the front-runner has hired consultant Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), her arch-nemesis. In the following months, the team exercises a strategy of "declaring a crisis". She spends the night in jail. "Our Brand is Crisis" was one of these pleasant surprises. They plan to frighten the people, with the aim of persuading them to vote for the unsympathetic but known Castillo rather than the younger opposition candidates. They make a sling shot out of clothes and shoot something that splatters against Candys window across the foyer. [17][18] Filming also took place in the Bonnet Carr Spillway in Norco in St. Charles Parish. But the main mystery to me was the message of this film. From that day on, she says, our brand is crisis.. 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. However, Castillo refuses to give permission for the team to do so. Rivera is on, holding two babies during a campaign stop, confessing how hes doubly lucky, and promises to run a positive campaign. They talk about the book and Mephistopheles, with whom Faust makes a wager for his soul. Principal photography began on September 29, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Either the character repents, and you have a cornball ending, or the character doesnt, and you have a soapy endorsement of sociopathy. A timeline of the (alleged) drama involving Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles, and Florence Pugh. At a Rivera campaign stop, Jane is seen talking to Candy. She explains its not relevant whether its true. It's a game that has a real impact on people's lives, but a game nonetheless. Theres no redemption to be found with the people who are ruining liveswho have no belief in politicians or voters; people who have basically given up on humanity and play with public policy like a kid with a loaded gun. Karen Kunawicz. Though not without its entertaining momentsthe cast, led by Sandra Bullock, is energetic, sharp and gets a fair number of juicy bits to rock out with. She comes to realize shes better than that. The study of crisis management originated with large-scale industrial and environmental disasters in the 1980s. She insists Castillo express regret, but not to apologize. They just decided to be ingratiating and sentimental. Well, that would be you and me both before and after. 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 says it will be an honor. And yet in David Gordon Greens tale of political fixers, Our Brand Is Crisis, he wants to find hope. Nevertheless, theres not much reason for you to take my word over theirs. When youre in the movie reviewing ministry, a variety of messages and agendas come and go. A lethally effective charm delivery system, Sandra Bullock doesn't need to do much to win you over. Politics takes to cynicism like shit to a cesspool. In the mix is a fine supporting cast including a sensational Thornton . A montage shows the crisis message is working and support for Castillo is growing. It is considered to be the most important process in public relations." [2/4], Sandra Bullock is the best part of this wobbly farce As a look at the state of the art of political campaigning (in the US as well as in Bolivia), Our Brand Is Crisis does not cut particularly deep and the ending isnt great. A llama is shown getting hit by a car. 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. Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) Rated R for language including some sexual references. Jane gets a call from Pat who tells her to turn on the TV. She tells him shes going home tomorrow. He suggests maybe later they can go out. A graphic shows with 24 days left until the election, Castillo has 19% and Rivera has 30%. Screenwriter Peter Straughans script originally featured a male protagonist, but Bullock makes the role her own, from vomiting into a wastepaper basket and mooning the opposition to shrewdly choreographing an on-air attack of tears for her candidate. This is the meaning of the title. In a restaurant, Jane sits alone until Candy sits next to her. 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. When the gunfire stops, the camera moves in on a boy sitting on the steps of a building, his head partly covered by his coat as if hes grabbing a nap. Later at her hotel room, she is still nauseous from the elevation. During the debate, Nell observes how charming Rivera is, while the team watches stage left. When she starts giving it back to himpsyching him outthe movie gets really good. Its yoked to an impoverished Bolivian teenager who believesdespite the angry effusions of his brother and friends in their hillside slumthat Castillo is sincere in trying to bring about economic equality. Jane says its time to go negative. Somebody on the Castillo bus says Jane has a great ass! (And she does. Comedy-Drama. The image of that boy haunts Our Brand Is Crisis, so that the U.S. strategists who do a bang-up job of getting the wrong man elected to the wrong place at the wrong time look like agents of catastrophe.. Jane is elated and tells the communication team to talk to the press and inform them Rivera just used a quote from Joseph Goebbels, the head Nazi propaganda minister. There are 12 misuses of god, Jesus (1), Jesus Christ (1), hell (3) and d*mn (3). His slickness fits the milieu. "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. Our Brand Is Crisis is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Peter Straughan, based on the 2005 documentary film of the same name by Rachel Boynton. Reluctantly enlisted to help elect the unlikable bully Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida), Jane gets the bit between her teeth when she discovers that her arch-rival, Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), is running the oppositions campaign. This movie offers us the tale of the fall and redemption of an unscrupulous white lady -- who we know cannot really be unscrupulous since shes Sandra Bullock. We root for Jane to win and feel guilty for caring more about the game than the country. But the fact that it wants to also squeeze in a redemptive tale is completely at odds with the work the protagonist is doing. Jane is so nauseous from her travel and the elevation she leaves and is heard throwing up. Power? The interviewer says shes been known by many names, most notably Calamity Jane. He is a crook. Although the movie has flashes where everything comes together and we can revel in dark victories, more often than not, star Sandra Bullock is left to carry the crushing emotional and thematic weight of a confused picture that acknowledges that politics is a cheap joke, and then expects us all to laugh. Preview", "Star-Driven Casualties 'Our Brand Is Crisis' & 'Burnt' At The B.O. Answer, Does HIGH MORAL CHARACTER matter in political leaders? Our Brand Is Crisis review - dirty political dealings in South America. Boynton traveled to Bolivia to cover the activity of a high-priced U.S. consulting firm, Greenberg Carville, and Shrum, in the 2002 presidential race, and she had amazingfrankly, flabbergastingaccess. [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. She is approached by Candy, who tells her hes surprised shes working on an unwinnable campaign. [19] Additional filming occurred in Puerto Rico and Bolivia. She tells Castillo and the campaign that this is no longer an election, it is a crisis. Initially under the impression that her man is a dud, Jane is soon animated by Castillos spontaneous response to getting egged (that is, he decks the egger) and her personal animus against Candy. The premise doesn't really show up until the end of the movie. Did Cirie go too far by bringing family matters into the game? Please share it with your friends rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); He wants to find triumph in a tale that should be satiric at best and depressing at worst. 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. Did Cirie go too far by bringing family matters into the game ever-greater political chaos the! 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