Mister Lonely
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| Directed by | Harmony Korine |
| Produced by | Harmony Korine Nadja Romain Adam Bohling |
| Written by | Harmony Korine Avi Korine |
| Starring |
Diego Luna Samantha Morton Denis Lavant Werner Herzog James Fox Anita Pallenberg |
| Music by |
Jason "Spaceman" Pierce Sun City Girls |
| Cinematography | Marcel Zyskind |
| Edited by |
Valdís Óskarsdóttir Paul Zucker |
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| Distributed by |
IFC Films (US) Tartan Films (UK) Shellac Distribution (France) |
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113 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom France  Ireland  United States 
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| Language | English French |
| Budget | $8.2 million |
| Box office | $393,813 |
Mister Lonely is a 2007 British-French-Irish-American comedy-drama film directed by Harmony Korine and co-written with his brother Avi Korine. The film features an ensemble cast of well-known foreign actors, including Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, Werner Herzog, James Fox, Anita Pallenberg and Leos Carax.
A young man living in Paris scratches out a living as a Michael Jackson look-alike, dancing on the streets, public parks, tourist spots and trade shows. During a show in an old people's home, he meets Marilyn Monroe. Haunted by her angelic beauty, he follows her to a commune in the Scottish Highlands, joining her husband Charlie Chaplin, and her daughter Shirley Temple. Here, the Pope, the Queen, Madonna, James Dean, and other impersonators build a stage in the hope that the world will visit and watch them perform.
A subplot concerns a convent of nuns, in what seems to be a developing country. One of the nuns survives a fall from an airplane during a mission to deliver food to villages, and discovers that if you are true of heart, God will protect you. All the nuns then begin jumping from planes to show they are true of heart and protected by God.
Korine conceived of a film about impersonators as a way to explore what he called "the obsessive nature" of the impersonator personality. Rather than mocking or belittling impersonation, Korine claims to have felt a "fondness and empathy" for impersonators since childhood.
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