Mister Lonely

Michael Jackson meets Marilyn Monroe at acar show in Paris. She brings him along on hertrip to the Scottish castle she inhabits with herhusband Charlie Chaplin and daughter ShirleyTemple. Writer and director Harmony Korine’scolorful absurdist third feature follows the dailyroutines in the lives of celebrity impersonators.Diego Luna stars as a lonesome young man whospends his life as Michael Jackson, a talentedundiscovered performer whose encounter withMonroe opens up a whole new exciting world: acommunity of impersonators.With Michael Winterbottom’s cinematographer,Marcel Zyskind, Korine turns his back on thedogma-influenced aesthetics of his earlierworks and makes the subtly sad and humoristic“Mister Lonely” a pleasure to watch. Just like inhis debut “Gummo”, his love for marginal misfits shines through in every blissful scene of thisweird visit to the Harmony Korine fantasy waxmuseum, where nuns fly and the Pope jumpsinto bed with the Queen of England.

Premiere Status
Swedish Premiere: Cast
Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Werner Herzog, Denis Lavant: Producer
Nadja Romain: Script
Avi Korine, Harmony Korine: Cinematography
Marcel Zyskind: Music
Jason Spaceman, The Sun City Girls: Spoken language
English