[24], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 35% based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. Bush strategist Lee Atwater, who by his own reported deathbed admission was an unholy monster, and to this day keeps afloat the brand of George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove. Jane invites them out to dinner with the campaign team. The message I got from this movie was very positive. The R-rating is because of the language. 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. They make a sling shot out of clothes and shoot something that splatters against Candys window across the foyer. She opens with footage of an anti-government riot that came less than a year after the election. Afterwards, Jane sends 3 Bolivian singers to show up at Candys door. By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive email correspondence from us. When youre in the movie reviewing ministry, a variety of messages and agendas come and go. This Friday, Sandra Bullock assumes the role in Our Brand Is Crisis, a mostly satirical take on a 2005 documentary of the same name about American political consultants conquest of a Bolivian election. The interviewer says she's been known by many names, most notably "Calamity Jane". Vanessa Bryant Settles Helicopter-Crash Photo Lawsuit for $28.85 Million. When Bodine realizes that she brought a liar into office, she has the car stopped and leaves to join Eduardo. The movie opens with a title sequence regarding the main character Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) and her rise and fall from hotshot political strategist/image . A lethally effective charm delivery system, Sandra Bullock doesn't need to do much to win you over. 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. Since Im reviewing this film for its DVD release, Ive already taken into consideration the opinions of other reviewers. She pulls from her bag the pottery bowl that Ben was admiring in the first scene, and hands it to him before climbing out of the car. Candy says he will be going to overseas for a British campaign. "Our Brand is Crisis" was one of these pleasant surprises. (The daughter killed herself as a result.). There are dozens of pottery jars and bowls covering the walls. This is yet another film that could have been PG (maybe PG-13 due to a mooning scene) with a cleaner script. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. If youve been following the drama in the House, the inability of most every Republican presidential candidate to lift off, or really any news from American politics over the last 10 or 239 years, you might have noticed that politics is difficult. Unfortunately, the quote is actually from Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda. 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. The protest is growing in the city. Jane says its time to go negative. 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. They approach each other and she just smiles. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. . In Bolivia, altitude sickness (at 12 thousand feet, La Paz is the worlds highest capital) and sickness with the candidate nearly drive her away. Fliers are discovered, authored by the La Paz Grassroots that say Castillo had a three year affair. He cant reconcile that her success also makes her a bad person. The big reason it works, though, is that it takes its premise from Rachel Boyntons phenomenal (but little-known) 2005 documentary of the same name. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Someone smashes an egg on Castillo, who spectacularly punches the assailant. After this incident, however, Castillo shows the other side of him by being kind to protesters who throw rocks at his bus. (Vice) President Selina Meyers (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has a stable of advisers including Dan Egan (Reid Scott) and Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) who have internalized and aspire to the Carville cult; its just that reality interrupts to remind them that things dont work like that. The film starts with Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) being interviewed. The protagonist, Jane Bodine a.k.a. Maybe its time to put it out to pasture. Election day. What sealed the deal was that she will be coming up against her long-time arch-nemesis, Pat Candy. Her words are intercut with footage of newspaper headlines and, oddly, shots of Bullocks hands molding clay at a pottery wheel. They reluctantly agree, but the city is in gridlock due to the protests, which are on the verge of becoming riots. That kind of consumer response is pretty remarkable, and it also says something about each brand's crisis management strategies. It might be possible to make a good movie out of a cross between Mike Nichols Primary Colors and Costa-Gavras Z, but Our Brand Is Crisis, directed by David Gordon Green in a seeming attempt to do something along those lines, is not that movie. Their main tactic is to emphasize the many problems of the economy and present Castillo as the solution. A knock on the door reveals Eddie, saddened and angry, who tells her about the IMF plan. 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. The deception disgusts her. Our Brand is Crisis hits a lot of clunky notes and the end is unforgivably cornball, but its still one of the liveliest political black comedies Ive seen in a while. It is revealed that she retired after violating election laws. Read full review SEE ALL 35 REVIEWS User Score Write a Review 6.4 Positive: 23 By the way, the bus driver is paid to drive like a complete moron to do it. A bus race ensues around dangerous bends and cliffs. The interviewer says shes been known by many names, most notably Calamity Jane. . 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. Ben says, ok. 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. Jane wants to overtake it. 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. Some reviews said it was ambiguous. That remains a question shrouded in mystery, but we could probably come up with some decent guesses. She is then seen in the middle of the protest, and sees Eddie. As one of his first actions, he invites the IMF into Bolivia, thereby breaking his promise. Comedy-Drama. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. 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.. So I knew that, in this case, I would just have to find out for myself. Thats not just naive to the point of idiocy. Montage of the press reporting throughout the day. The opposition's top political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy. ***END SPOILER***. You never find out. Answer, Should Christians seek political power or should we only focus on evangelism? Our Brand is Crisis may be director David Gordon Green's most sterile picture yet, but it's redeemed somewhat by Sandra Bullock's lead performance, as well as a talented ensemble cast . At another meeting with advisors, its revealed the crisis message is working, but not so well that it will win the election. Back on the bus, Castillo explain to Eddie that an effective leader is a father to the people, and that sometimes a father must be strict. Carvilles troops were dispatched to La Paz in 02 to consolidate the great victory of liberalism and democracy as they and their sponsors and benefactors understand those things and to resist the rising tide of Latin American leftism represented in Bolivia by the indigenous political leader Evo Morales, Gonis leading opponent. The disillusioned Eduardo joins his brothers at a demonstration of people demanding change. Later, two senior advisors argue the crisis brand may have worked with the current crowd, but it wont with the working class. When she starts giving it back to himpsyching him outthe movie gets really good. Before a campaign stop, Jane tells Eddie to help Castillo roll up his sleeves. 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. 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. When they get home, his brothers ridicule Eddie for bringing Yankees and trusting them, and for that matter, trusting Castillo. Before long the SUV comes to a stop in the heavy traffic on the tiny streets. In the mix is a fine supporting cast including a sensational Thornton . In a restaurant, Jane sits alone until Candy sits next to her. They just decided to be ingratiating and sentimental. Jane is so nauseous from her travel and the elevation she leaves and is heard throwing up. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. Mimicking the behavior in the actresss previous film, Minions, Jane is shown mooning a bus. I can barely imagine the humiliation! It already has. Its pretty powerful, actually. Thornton is sleek, clammy, and leering. In its best moments, Our Brand Is Crisis is reminiscent of Wag the Dog; it knows how fucked politics is and acts accordingly. Jane is goaded by patronizing men into proving herself in ways shes not proud of. Nevertheless, his brothers are much more skeptical about Castillo. Loosely based on the 2005 documentary of the same name, Our Brand is Crisis offers a fictionalized take on the 2002 Bolivian Presidential election with a cast that includes Academy Award. 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. What are you going to do? and then leaves. Its cute for a while. "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 hits a lot of clunky notes and the end is unforgivably cornball, but it's still one of the liveliest political black comedies I've seen in a while. But the fact that it wants to also squeeze in a redemptive tale. ***SPOILER*** Castillo wins the election, and immediately breaks all his promises and turns out to be a tyrant. Jane is seen having a moment of introspection. Candy reveals it was him (via a friend of a friend) who anonymously suggested to the Castillo campaign to hire Jane. "Our Brand Is Crisis" is being released by Warner Bros., but was largely funded by Participant Media, which produces what it calls "socially relevant films and documentaries." In other words,. Right before the debate with the 3 leading candidates, Jane is sitting alone in the lecture hall, reading Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and is soon joined by Candy. Jane tells him this is the way of politics, and its not her job to solve problems after the election. 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). A timeline of the (alleged) drama involving Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles, and Florence Pugh. Janes cynicismshe regards herself, the candidate, and everyone else as a pawnis so over-the-top that it threatens to derail Our Brand is Crisis: Who cares about the election if she doesnt? She moved to a mountain cabin, stopped smoking, got sober, and started doing pottery. Castillo has won the election. GCS brings in Jane Bodine to manage the campaign in Bolivia--battling her arch-nemesis, the opposition's political consultant Pat Candy. Thats why in a time of ever-greater political chaos, the character rings so false. Jane gets blasted, leaks misinformation, vandalizes Candys room, and sabotages his candidates rallies the way he sabotaged her candidates. It received mixed reviews, despite Bullock's performance being largely praised, and was a box office disappointment. There is very little violence. 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. The film is directed by David. She explains its not relevant whether its true. Back at Janes hotel, Ben calls and informs her there will be a protest downtown. She comes to realize shes better than that. Principal photography began on September 29, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (A heavy back story is subsequently revealed, followed by an ever heavier back story to the back story.) 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? Our sophisticated political flimflam could make more inroads than the Marshall Plan. As a result of this, Castillo agrees to start running a negative campaign. She can quote appropriate nuggets of wisdom from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and from the world's leaders and thinkers. Jane also has to get Castillo to be totally transparent to her to uncover those skeletons that she might need to deal with, being transparent which he may not be willing to be, not realizing that her own skeletons might pop out to play. Negative ads are now running for Castillos campaign. Answer. It needs a strongman who can handle a crisis. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. So yes, throughout the film, the protagoniststhe ones portrayed as good guysuse communistic propaganda. For people who want the vastly more interesting real history of Americas misbegotten meddling in Bolivia just one chapter, of course, in a much larger global story Boyntons film is out there, and so is what happened later. Our Brand Is Crisis is being released by Warner Bros., but was largely funded by Participant Media, which produces what it calls socially relevant films and documentaries. In other words, in this case the right-wingers are correct: Liberal Hollywood is in full effect. It also sets up a Hollywood ending that all but wrecks the movie. Since 2013, the study of English and history has dropped by a third; the number of STEM degrees, meanwhile, is soaring. Others discuss plans but Jane is silent. Now, the film is so heavily fictionalized that it's much more an emotive or thematic . The pacing is lickety-split, the talk is boisterous, and the cast is all aces. Toronto Film Review: 'Our Brand Is Crisis' Sandra Bullock plays a ruthless political stategist in a role inspired by Rachel Boynton's docu and intended for producer George Clooney to play. During the final debate, Bodine cites a quote in a conversation with Candy (knowing that he'll give it to rival candidate Rivera for his speech) saying that "a great man" said it. Janes conversion, alas, is over-broad and signaled from the start. Andrew O'Hehir is executive editor of Salon. 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In its best moments, Our Brand Is Crisis is reminiscent of Wag the Dog; it knows how fucked politics is and acts accordingly. The campaign believes Castillo should apologize as soon as possible but Jane disagrees. PLEASE share your observations and insights to be posted here. 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. In a Netflix comedy by Katharine McPhees stepdaughter. What part should morality play in politics? They even resort to publishing photos of their enemy with Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie in the background, so that he has to deny being a Nazi. In addition, there are 20+ f-words, s-words (19), and one each of a**, SOB, p*ssed, p*ssy, b*stard, b***h, tw*t, cr*p, and t*rd. Have they learned nothing? She then asks who knows English and only a handful of people raise their hands, so LeBlanc must translate. Thats why Hollywood had to invent a character with such powers: the knowing, salty political consultant. On a bus trip to a mountainous countryside, protesters start throwing rocks at the bus. All of them, except Bodine, have already taken jobs as political consultants in other countries. [27] Peter Debruge from Variety thought that Jane Bodine, played by Bullock, "is easily one of the best female roles of the last 10 years,"[28] while Benjamn Lee from The Guardian wrote that "Bullock seems blissfully unaware of the films faults and delivers a performance that expertly plays on her strengths - her comic timing, wasted in lesser, plane-ready comedies, is on top form and she imbues her neurotic character with more than the thinly sketched quirks provided on the page; she commands a room when needed, perfects scenes of physical comedy and even turns a climax of forced sentiment into something poignant and believable"; he concluded that "while the film is patchy, Bullock's brand is confidently crisis-free". The film gives a fictionalized account of the involvement of American political campaign strategists Greenberg Carville Shrum (GCS) in the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. 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. The boys (all adult age) are living alone because their parents have both died. Although I hasten to add that even by the standards of Bullocks implacable, steel-jawed underacting this is a dull performance. That was almost certainly the final straw. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack. A young man working on the campaign, Eduardo (Reynaldo Pacheco) comes to the rescue of Castillo and ushers him away. At least not right away. Jane insists to the campaign team that this was set up by Candy. The women of, Sam Levinson and the Weeknd Allegedly Turned, Theres No Red Button You Can Push to Stop. [8] On September 24, Ann Dowd joined the film. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The pacing is. Its also revealed that Candy is the one who ran over the llama during the commercial shoot. The poor reviews of Our Brand is Crisis are puzzling, since its one of the few non-documentary films to show successfully a) what rip-roaring fun politics can be when its only about marketing and b) what terrible things can happen when its only about marketing. 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. She tells Castillo and the campaign that this is no longer an election, it is a crisis. Its great fun. Castillo wins the vote by a small margin. 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. But the main mystery to me was the message of this film. Back at the hotel room, Jane is with Eddie and his brothers, ordering room service and still drunk. 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. She doesnt respond. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. There are 12 misuses of god, Jesus (1), Jesus Christ (1), hell (3) and d*mn (3). Entertaining and provocative, Our Brand Is Crisis is a satirical political drama. While Castillo is meeting with the press, Jane meets Eduardo. 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. It's a game that has a real impact on people's lives, but a game nonetheless. And even hes not even that close. 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