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. At least not right away. "[25] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Our Brand Is Crisis also has deeper themes that punctuate the human cost of winning and what it takes to do just that. And yet in David Gordon Greens tale of political fixers, Our Brand Is Crisis, he wants to find hope. Eddie is delivering a framed photograph to now President-Elect Castillos Senate offices. The protagonist, Jane Bodine a.k.a. And Im not talking about content issues, like language or nudity, Im talking about the message the movie preaches at the audience. Directed by David Gordon Green. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. 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. 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. 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. A lethally effective charm delivery system, Sandra Bullock doesn't need to do much to win you over. Her words are intercut with footage of newspaper headlines and, oddly, shots of Bullocks hands molding clay at a pottery wheel. LeBlanc discovers Rivera has purchased 27 vehicles with taxpayer money at the cost of about 35-40 vehicles. This is yet another film that could have been PG (maybe PG-13 due to a mooning scene) with a cleaner script. Rated R Although this is yet another nice white lady who benevolently comes to the aid of a non-white young person (in the case of Our Brand Is Crisis, it's a campaign intern who idolizes Castillo), Bullock shows a lot more shading here than in The Blind Side. Jane is a broken prizefighter who has been called into the ring for one last round. See list of Relevant Issuesquestions-and-answers. At a Rivera campaign stop, Jane is seen talking to Candy. It is only the knowing, salty political consultant who can bridge the gap between political reality and tidy fictional narrative. [2/4], The effort by Our Brand Is Crisis director David Gordon Green and writer Peter Straughan to turn the 2005 documentary of the same name into a light comedy with touches of romance and political hijinks leave the fictional version a poor candidate in the box office race. So they cop out, closing on an unlikely, feel-good character turn for Bodine. 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. It begins poorly, with an odd montage intercut to stagey interview footage in which Bullocks character, Calamity Jane Bodine, formulates an apologia for we-dont-quite-know-what. She introduces LeBlanc (Zoe Kazan), a young investigator who is hired to dig up dirt on Rivera. 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. Power? There is only one wrong thing to do, she says: Losing. The premise doesn't really show up until the end of the movie. Still offensive? 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. A timeline of the (alleged) drama involving Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles, and Florence Pugh. The more you understand politics, the more it obliterates idealism and eventually all you see is a rigged game masquerading as a grand-scale optimism. 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. While Castillo is meeting with the press, Jane meets Eduardo. She is approached by Candy, who tells her hes surprised shes working on an unwinnable campaign. Our sophisticated political flimflam could make more inroads than the Marshall Plan. Senator Pedro Castillo, President of Bolivia 15 years ago, is once again running for the country's top job. She moved to a mountain cabin, stopped smoking, got sober, and started doing pottery. Answer, Should Christians seek political power or should we only focus on evangelism? And sometimesin fact, I daresay oftenyou know about a half hour into a film that youre going to have to censure it. Eventually Eddie sees her and they make eye contact. And even hes not even that close. Finally, she meets with Castillo for their first conversation. From there, Jane uses every trick at her disposal to try and beat Candy. I have to rate it Offensive, due to its foul language, several blasphemies, and Sandra Bullocks bare hiny. 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. Around the edges of this story about Bullocks character, an especially ruthless consultant known as Calamity Jane, there are a few intriguing hints of other stories about the international financial system, the power of fear in politics and the American understanding of what democracy means when applied to other people in other countries. 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. 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. Jane says its just a carousel and she was going around and around. The deeply disappointed Eduardo visits Bodine in her hotel; Bodine replies that she is not responsible for Castillo's actions. Jane meets with Castillo who says shes a liability. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. 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.. She really truly does.). George Clooney and Grant Heslov produced. But if you can be wary of those things, I do recommend this film. When youre in the movie reviewing ministry, a variety of messages and agendas come and go. Since 2013, the study of English and history has dropped by a third; the number of STEM degrees, meanwhile, is soaring. Jane is talking with Nell, and insults her about her dedication to the campaign. The political comedy Our Brand Is Crisis stars Sandra Bullock as an American campaign strategist hired to work for a Bolivian presidential candidate. Played for laughs? Jane highlights something in the book. Since Im reviewing this film for its DVD release, Ive already taken into consideration the opinions of other reviewers. [22], 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. But Boynton has done her own framing: This campaign is a precursor to tragedy. 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. Jane has accepted the offer and their plane lands in La Paz, Bolivia, which has an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. For those who want more detail, I have written a paragraph below containing spoilers. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. The villagers are angrily blocking the bus, and Castillo, against the wishes of Jane, gets off to talk with them. 1h 47m. [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. All rights reserved. One woman says he has a weird smile. Fliers are discovered, authored by the La Paz Grassroots that say Castillo had a three year affair. Nevertheless, his brothers are much more skeptical about Castillo. It is revealed that she retired after violating election laws. Rivera is on, holding two babies during a campaign stop, confessing how hes doubly lucky, and promises to run a positive campaign. 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. 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. The interviewer says shes been known by many names, most notably Calamity Jane. [3], The film opened on October 30, 2015, alongside Burnt and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. Morales government has dramatically reduced poverty and inequality, and presided over one of the worlds fastest-growing economies, right through the crash of 2008. Castillo's American consultants, knowing that they need ideas outside the box, recruit "retired" political strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine, who has lived somewhat off the grid and has not worked on a political campaign in six years. Since 2006, Bolivia has been governed by Evo Morales, the indigenous leader whose protest movement led to Gonis downfall. Our Brand Is Crisis still could have been an excellent tale, but told through a soft prism of second chances and good intentions, we can't buy what Green is selling. In a restaurant, Jane sits alone until Candy sits next to her. Violence: Moderate / Profanity: Heavy / Sex/Nudity: Moderate to heavys. The protest is growing in the city. Both Bullock and Thornton portray Carvillesque characters (and the bald Thornton looks the part). In the mix is a fine supporting cast including a sensational Thornton . Even worse, it turns out to be a humanist, socialist, anti-capitalist message about "the people" rising up to establish some sort of vague communist brotherhood centered . She explains its not relevant whether its true. Busy Phillips Is Not Like a Regular Mom, Shes a Cool Mom, Theres nothing wrong with Busy Phillips being cast as Mrs. George in the upcoming, In Search of Tom and Katies Bubba Painting, Maybe punting on the larger plot can be forgiven if we get a sweet. Let me know how that goes. Jane then joins the mass of people who are walking toward the city. 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. 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. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. The real meat of the comedy, and drama, comes in the ingenious dirty tricks that Candy and Bodine play on each other, which could kick off a primer on the political practice recently known as rat-f**king (although that phrase is never uttered in the film). At another commercial set inside a warehouse, several llamas are there, and Castillo is set to compare the future of Bolivia with llamas, who work hard. 2023 Vox Media, LLC. Please share it with your friends rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); 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. Bullocks Jane Bodine offers nothing new. Bodine had fled the consulting scene for years after an eruption of conscience that pushed her to mental breakdown, sobriety, and pottery. ts=String.fromCharCode(60); 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. Oct. 29, 2015. 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. Answer, Does HIGH MORAL CHARACTER matter in political leaders? Bodine used to be the best in the game, but an unfortunate series of events during a campaign destroyed her reputation and confidence. Vanessa Bryant Settles Helicopter-Crash Photo Lawsuit for $28.85 Million. Although I hasten to add that even by the standards of Bullocks implacable, steel-jawed underacting this is a dull performance. Shes convinced to step up when she discovers the front-runner has hired consultant Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), her arch-nemesis. 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. Its nun versus AI in Damon Lindelofs new series. A bra is used as a slingshot, and two shirtless men are briefly shown. In its opening weekend, it was projected to make $57 million from 2,202 theaters,[23] however only ended up grossing $3.2 million, finishing eighth at the box office. The campaign believes Castillo should apologize as soon as possible but Jane disagrees. GCS brings in Jane Bodine to manage the campaign in Bolivia--battling her arch-nemesis, the opposition's political consultant Pat Candy. When Jane leaves the meeting with LeBlanc, she instead instructs her to dig up dirt on Castillo, their own candidate. It already has. The pacing is. 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. David Gordon Green keeps the perspectives shifting, getting lots of good angles on this three-ring circus. By the way, the bus driver is paid to drive like a complete moron to do it. There just arent enough cigarettes or bottles of Scotch in the world to give any political consultant the power that we, in our fits of frustration, guiltily wish they had. Plot out uproarious long-shot tricks against his opponents that always seem to work out even better than hoped? This is the meaning of the title. Jane says that Pat Candy is behind the fliers. An young actress expresses concern with her part in the ad, which requires her to be caught by Castillo. A knock on the door reveals Eddie, saddened and angry, who tells her about the IMF plan. Once a political idealist, she increasingly was a strategist for hire outwardly not caring about the actual politics of her boss. I need a majority. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. The reality of U.S. politics is dominated not so much by incompetent leaders as mortals who lack the requisite superpowers needed to steer the ship of state. We root for Jane to win and feel guilty for caring more about the game than the country. Starring Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton. That's true even in "Our Brand Is Crisis," a . Its educational and leaves you with serious thoughts about political power. Kristen Bell to Befriend an Unorthodox Rabbi. Eddie replies, what about you? 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. 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. Meanwhile, the senior advisors (Ben, Nell and others) talk about Jane and Candy, how they had sex previously, and how she spread a rumor during a campaign that Candys candidates daughter was on drugs. She describes the Daisy advertisement, which ran exactly once, that turned the election for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater. Calamity Jane (Sandra Bullock), has been lured out of retirement by gobs of money and a challenge: Can she convince the Bolivian people to elect as president an unpopular, arrogant, cigar-chomping oligarch named Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida)who was already president once and bungled the job? Candys played by Billy Bob Thornton, and his serpentine southern charm and minimalist tonsorial stylings suggest real-life political maven James Carville (and it is perhaps no accident that Thornton played a deep-fried political strategist in Primary Colors, too) who was in the aforementioned documentary. 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. What are you going to do? and then leaves. His name is too long with her so she just calls him Eddie. She looks across the large foyer to see Candy sitting outside his room. All of them, except Bodine, have already taken jobs as political consultants in other countries. Who paid for it? A montage shows the crisis message is working and support for Castillo is growing. 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). It also sets up a Hollywood ending that all but wrecks the movie. She then asks who knows English and only a handful of people raise their hands, so LeBlanc must translate. To handle this scandal, Castillo is interviewed on TV and explains it was a visit to his son, who IS a member of the cult, and he had to wear the robe. Some said it was insightful. But the fact that it wants to also squeeze in a redemptive tale. 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. You want to know how the Janes of the world happen. She then offers money to the driver to overtake the Rivera bus. Jane invites them out to dinner with the campaign team. Did Cirie go too far by bringing family matters into the game? Thats why Hollywood had to invent a character with such powers: the knowing, salty political consultant. When she starts giving it back to himpsyching him outthe movie gets really good. The police arrive and the demonstration quickly turns into a riot. Throughout almost all of the film, Jane and her team use dirty manipulation to campaign for Castillo. One of the llamas is hit by a truck. Thanks for reading the spoiler. Our Brand is Crisis review: While the film is heart-warmingly centered on Bullock, she is at her best neurotic, desperate, redeemable self. In Bolivia, the situation is tense: Bodine learns that the indigenous people, who are a majority in the country but lack any real political power, are protesting for constitutional reform to get proper representation. [21] It had a wide release in 2,202 theaters for 21 days. Not all movies preach, for example, action movies are usually more about the entertainment of watching good triumph over evil. Comedy Drama 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. Besser. 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. Afterwards, Jane sends 3 Bolivian singers to show up at Candys door. Although she was once a wunderkind of the political strategy community, she lost her last four campaigns, the speculation that being the reason she dropped out of sight. I think you pull it, Joshua Jackson says to Lizzy Caplan sensually. Arriving at Janes house, she explains she has quit smoking and drinking and has focused on pottery. Its only when the camera is on top of him that we see the pool of blood. Among the many achievements of HBOs Veep is its discovery of a new, post-Carville political consultant character, one thats just as cuttingly entertaining but truer to reality. He wants to find triumph in a tale that should be satiric at best and depressing at worst. Others discuss plans but Jane is silent. The Unloved, Part 111: Devil in a Blue Dress, Female Filmmakers in Focus: Cauleen Smith on Drylongso, True Lies Fails to Capture the Charm of the James Cameron Original, Berlinale 2023 Highlights, Part Two: Reality, Manodrome, The Adults, Inside, Golda. Instead, both end up outside of their hotel rooms so they can see each other. Joaquim de Almeida - Castillo. [17][18] Filming also took place in the Bonnet Carr Spillway in Norco in St. Charles Parish. 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. There are also two middle finger displays. Thankfully, were usually too wrapped up in Bullocks great performance to mind the films cognitive dissonance. Thats why in a time of ever-greater political chaos, the character rings so false. Its also revealed that Candy is the one who ran over the llama during the commercial shoot. Later shell claim he got the room intentionally to get under her skin. [9] On October 10, Joaquim de Almeida and Zoe Kazan joined the cast, with Almeida playing Castillo, the former president of Bolivia, and Kazan playing a young woman who finds dirt on political candidates. 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. He calls the police and Jane is seen slapping an officer. Were not supposed to earnestly admire any of these people, but we are supposed to guiltily admire their unfailing ability to guide impossible undertakings, such as the practice of politics, to victory through whatever means. There's only one wrong in this, only one, and that is losing!". Written by Peter Straughan, and according to its credits inspired by the 2005 documentary film of the same name, Our Brand is Crisis uneasily mixes the star vehicle with the screwball-political-comedy/satire with the (half-heartedly, in the end) impassioned call to social consciousness arms. In her eyes, her job is done. 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. The website's critical consensus reads, "Our Brand Is Crisis offers sporadic amusement and benefits from a talented cast, but ultimately lacks enough of a bite to add much of interest to the political satire genre. He is currently 28 points behind. The pottery business is explained forthwith, lest were worried about some Ghost influence. This film isnt as dark as Burnt, and has more amusing moments, including some comic relief, but still shouldnt be classified as a comedy. Jane insist they go negative in spite of this, but Castillo says no. Although Castillos populist opponent doesnt seem to have much integrity (the character does in the documentary), we still know that Castillo has less, that hes a dreadful man. All this makes for mid-grade entertainment value, at best. A shame, then, that the movie loses its cynical nerve with an utterly phoney finale that ties itself up in conscientious knots. Castillo promises them that he will not invite the IMF without a public referendum. Later, two senior advisors argue the crisis brand may have worked with the current crowd, but it wont with the working class. On a table she finds a Rivera doll. They just decided to be ingratiating and sentimental. [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". Rivera then repeats the quote Jane told Candy. PLEASE share your observations and insights to be posted here. "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. 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. That was almost certainly the final straw. [19] Additional filming occurred in Puerto Rico and Bolivia. She finally just decided to get off the carousel. Any empathy the audience feels for the nauseous Bodine is likely explained by . The film gives a fictionalized account of the involvement of American political campaign strategists Greenberg Carville Shrum (GCS) in the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. Castillo immediately punches the man. Soon enough she is smoking, drinking, and scheming again, signaling to the viewer that shes back to her antiheroic winning ways. The disillusioned Eduardo joins his brothers at a demonstration of people demanding change. From that day on, she says, our brand is crisis.. By Manohla Dargis. Jane says it will be an honor. 107 minutes Cast Sandra Bullock as 'Calamity' Jane Bodine Anthony Mackie as Ben Billy Bob Thornton as Pat Candy Zoe Kazan as LeBlanc Scoot McNairy as Buckley Ann Dowd as Nell Director David Gordon Green Screenplay Peter Straughan Writer (original documentary) 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. You never find out. [16], On August 21, 2014, Bullock's casting was confirmed, playing a retired political consultant called 'Calamity' Jane Bodine, and David Gordon Green was set to direct the film. Ben jumps out and yells, get in the car, what are you doing? A young man working on the campaign, Eduardo (Reynaldo Pacheco) comes to the rescue of Castillo and ushers him away. Los Angeles County said all litigation over the crash has now been resolved. We know this stuff happens, but its still clarifying to see the curtains pulled back. I found the film to be very interesting, and all the cast put on some of their best performances Ive seen. He says the people in the village dont understand that yet. "- Castillo: This llama will lead us toward prosperity. She insists Castillo express regret, but not to apologize. 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. Things you buy through our links may earnNew Yorka commission. They approach each other and she just smiles. 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