Julien Donkey Boy

Julien DonkeyBoy is a 1999 American drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine. The story concentrates on the schizophrenic Julien, played by Scottish actor Ewen Bremner, and his dysfunctional family. The film also stars Chlo Sevigny as Juliens sister, Pearl, and Werner Herzog as his father. Julien DonkeyBoy is the sixth film to be made under the selfimposed rules of the Dogme 95 manifesto, and the first nonEuropean film to be made under the Dogme 95 vow of chastity.

From here, we see snapshots of the members of Juliens dysfunctional family. These include his pregnant sister Pearl, the father of her baby not being revealed though there are implications that it could indeed be Juliens, his brother Chris, who aspires to be a wrestler, his grandmother, and his domineering, German father, who shows no real love or encouragement to his family.Rather than follow a linear narrative, we instead see various scenes and vignettes involving the main characters, such as Julien working at a school for the blind, going to confession, muttering to himself on the streets and imagining conversations with Hitler. Pearl meanwhile learns to play the harp, looks for baby clothes for her soontobeborn child, lists her favorite baby names and cuts her Fathers hair. Chris spends practically the entire film working out and practicing his wrestling moves on trash cans, even having a frustratingly unserious match with Julien. And the Father recounts historical stories, lambasts Julien and Pearl for artsyfartsy poetry and being a dilitent and a slut respectively, though also pines for his dead wife. ........

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