All this makes for mid-grade entertainment value, at best. A timeline of the (alleged) drama involving Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles, and Florence Pugh. David Gordon Green keeps the perspectives shifting, getting lots of good angles on this three-ring circus. In case the true story behind the baffling and approximately well-intentioned Sandra Bullock star vehicle Our Brand Is Crisis makes any difference, here it is: Way back in the innocent days of 2002 (Im kidding about innocent), the high-powered political consulting firm Greenberg Carville Shrum parachuted into Bolivia to take up the cause of a struggling presidential candidate named Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada, universally known as Goni. Rachel Boynton, a documentary director whose work focuses on ideology, politics and power (her most recent movie, Big Men, is about the global workings of the oil industry), came along and made an extraordinary film about that campaign, whose title was drawn from a telling phrase coined by one of the GCS consultants. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. Politics takes to cynicism like shit to a cesspool. Ben jumps out and yells, get in the car, what are you doing? Who paid for it? Negative ads are now running for Castillos campaign. But theres no real fun in determining the extent to which this movie is some sort of a clef expos. [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". A llama is shown getting hit by a car. It is considered to be the most important process in public relations." 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 takes a room across the balcony in Janes hotel, where he can meet her stare, undress her with his eyes, and psych her out. 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. Maybe Carville and the Clintonocracy were empowering democracy after all, even if it wasnt quite the variety they intended. All rights reserved. Castillo wins the vote by a small margin. 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. 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. Candy says he will be going to overseas for a British campaign. Later, two senior advisors argue the crisis brand may have worked with the current crowd, but it wont with the working class. Somebody on the Castillo bus says Jane has a great ass! (And she does. I say, beat Candy because Jane doesnt really care that much about Castillo or Bolivia. Shes convinced to step up when she discovers the front-runner has hired consultant Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), her arch-nemesis. "Wake up, this is war. The villagers are angrily blocking the bus, and Castillo, against the wishes of Jane, gets off to talk with them. [5] On September 11, Scoot McNairy was added to the cast. The women of, Sam Levinson and the Weeknd Allegedly Turned, Theres No Red Button You Can Push to Stop. February 27, 2023. He denies being a member of the cult. Can Hollywood find a way to take the political consultant character in a new direction? Once a political idealist, she increasingly was a strategist for hire outwardly not caring about the actual politics of her boss. 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. The film starts with Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) being interviewed. 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 a large debate with all the candidates, Jane is found behind the stage backdrop during the debate. Our Brand Is Crisis. Before a campaign stop, Jane tells Eddie to help Castillo roll up his sleeves. Jane is so nauseous from her travel and the elevation she leaves and is heard throwing up. Jane says the llama cant stand the commercial so badly, he killed himself. It also sets up a Hollywood ending that all but wrecks the movie. He tells a story about a campaign run by Adlai Stevenson in which Stevenson is told everything thinking person would vote for him, to which Stevenson replies that is not enough. Outside, a large groan is heard. Yet you really have to read between the lines and dig into the subtext of Straughans screenplay to perceive the issues that drove Boyntons film. That is, of course, when you can get her out of 'retirement' and give her a good reason to . [2/4], Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, would be perfect humanist, socialist, anti-capitalist propaganda except its a bit disjointed Abhorrent at least 61 obscenities rear female nudity when woman on bus moons other bus, crass, grimy and not sure of its own message burdens itself with foul language and sexual allusions, spoiling some pretty great performances from Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton. Honestly, I didnt know what to expect, on a number of levels. Later shell claim he got the room intentionally to get under her skin. 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. Eddie and his brothers join the protests and are shouting angry chants. He wants to find triumph in a tale that should be satiric at best and depressing at worst. But every once in a while, you come across a movie that seems to be driving an evil message all the way through, and then suddenly the ending takes a moral turn and shows that the protagonists were wrong. Finally, she meets with Castillo for their first conversation. Its also revealed that Candy is the one who ran over the llama during the commercial shoot. I found the film to be very interesting, and all the cast put on some of their best performances Ive seen. Despite Sandra Bullocks strong lead performance, David Gordon Greens film cant push a hopeful tone past its depressing reality. The interviewer says shes been known by many names, most notably Calamity Jane. There are also two middle finger displays. Let me know how that goes. Jane then joins the mass of people who are walking toward the city. 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. [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. The 2005 Our Brand Is Crisis was the second documentary about Carvilles political work, following 1993s The War Room, in addition to Carvilles dramatic acting rsumand cable news career. Rivera is on, holding two babies during a campaign stop, confessing how hes doubly lucky, and promises to run a positive campaign. 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. Castillo tells her she needs professional help for wanting to do anything to win. 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. LeBlanc finds even more dirt on Rivera, but Jane tells her to focus everything on finding dirt on Castillo. 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. Oct. 29, 2015. 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.. It already has. Her words are intercut with footage of newspaper headlines and, oddly, shots of Bullocks hands molding clay at a pottery wheel. But when youre reviewing a political drama, you have to be careful to pay close attention. Its educational and leaves you with serious thoughts about political power. He does exactly that, to Janes delight, when explaining hes not close to his son, but he wishes he was, with tears in his eyes. [3], The film opened on October 30, 2015, alongside Burnt and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. . One woman says he has a weird smile. 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. Election day. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. Sometimes its both, as in Kathy Bates sharp-tongued, soft-hearted adviser in Primary Colors. When it does, Jane moons the Rivera bus. 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. A young man working on the campaign, Eduardo (Reynaldo Pacheco) comes to the rescue of Castillo and ushers him away. We just want to dive into a pool without having to hold onto our bottoms. Principal photography began on September 29, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The American consultants, not knowing the language or the culture of Bolivia, are persuaded by Bodine, a burned out veteran of American politics, to follow a strategy of smear campaigning to make up for their candidate's shortcomings. You want to know how the Janes of the world happen. Mick LaSalle. 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. 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 insistent, intrusive music score by David Wingo doesnt help matters, and neither do the too-many subsequent montages, all of which are of the always mistaken We Need A Montage variety. Eddie is delivering a framed photograph to now President-Elect Castillos Senate offices. In David Gordon Green's OUR BRAND IS CRISIS, the film is obviously in existence to point out how politics, no matter the nation, are used in gaining votes from image rather than truth. Our Brand is Crisis was one of these pleasant surprises. 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. She describes the Daisy advertisement, which ran exactly once, that turned the election for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater. 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. They then shoot the head of the Rivera doll Candy had left, and it breaks his window. What makes this fictionalized Our Brand Is Crisis worth noticing to the extent it is, which isnt much is that the filmmakers probably believe they are delivering roughly the same message as Boyntons documentary did, but in fact the most important aspects of this striking story has been scrubbed away or laundered into Hollywood-style pseudo-psychological neutrality. Not all movies preach, for example, action movies are usually more about the entertainment of watching good triumph over evil. Thats why Hollywood had to invent a character with such powers: the knowing, salty political consultant. 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. Its pretty powerful, actually. Eduardo, a young volunteer of the Castillo campaign, is deeply impressed by this show of commitment. Either the character repents, and you have a cornball ending, or the character doesnt, and you have a soapy endorsement of sociopathy. A senior advisor expresses dismay that she has been hired but all shes doing is sunning herself. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. 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. After he does this, Castillo gives Eddie his cufflinks to hold, and it is clear Eddie idolizes him. The film, directed by David Gordon Green and based on the 2005 documentary of the same name, follows Bullock's character Jane Bodine, a political mastermind brought in to help a Bolivian. 2/4[], Our Brand Is Crisis fun until it gets serious For too long, the stakes play second fiddle to the strategists and even the candidates remain too elusive to make the audience care as much as it should. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Castillo has won the election. 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. Kristen Bell to Befriend an Unorthodox Rabbi. 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. The campaign believes Castillo should apologize as soon as possible but Jane disagrees. This was the lowest wide release opening of Bullock's career, beating 1996's Two If by Sea ($4.7 million). The rest of the movie is her telling the story of what happened after her resignation. While Castillo is meeting with the press, Jane meets Eduardo. Karen Kunawicz. Crisis management examples are easy to find these days: We've seen Uber lose 200,000 users in the wake of #DeleteUber and United lose $800 million in value in just a few hours. Verdict. The interviewer says she's been known by many names, most notably "Calamity Jane". Andrew O'Hehir is executive editor of Salon. The emotional investment Green wants to make in Jane feels misplaced, especially since he also wants to celebrate moments when she behaves abhorrently. She then offers money to the driver to overtake the Rivera bus. 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. They talk about the book and Mephistopheles, with whom Faust makes a wager for his soul. And Im not talking about content issues, like language or nudity, Im talking about the message the movie preaches at the audience. [24], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 35% based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. Eventually Eddie sees her and they make eye contact. Cut back to the interview that opened the film. Starring Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton. 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. The deeply disappointed Eduardo visits Bodine in her hotel; Bodine replies that she is not responsible for Castillo's actions. It is revealed that she retired after violating election laws. 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? They just decided to be ingratiating and sentimental. Entertaining and provocative, Our Brand Is Crisis is a satirical political drama. 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. Jane gets blasted, leaks misinformation, vandalizes Candys room, and sabotages his candidates rallies the way he sabotaged her candidates. 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. I need a majority. Still offensive? Terms of Service apply. There is very little violence. Our Brand Is Crisis review - dirty political dealings in South America. They are then in a restaurant, the entire campaign team drinking heavily. Ben (Anthony Mackie) and Nell (Ann Down) are driving in the snowy mountains (between the mountains, as Jane later corrects them) discussing their plan to sway Jane to work for the campaign of Pedro Castillo, a Senator in Bolivia who is running for President. Jane next starts a rumor that Rivera is a Nazi, based on no real facts, but a fuzzy picture showing him with Nazi propaganda. What the hell was James Carville and Stan Greenbergs consulting firm with its close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party leadership class doing in one of South Americas smallest and poorest nations? She spends the night in jail. She explains its not relevant whether its true. 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. 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. . When people say its a communist movie, I think they are hugely misunderstanding the movies point. Jane meets with Castillo who says shes a liability. On a bus trip to a mountainous countryside, protesters start throwing rocks at the bus. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. Rated R Thankfully, were usually too wrapped up in Bullocks great performance to mind the films cognitive dissonance. In its best moments, Our Brand Is Crisis is reminiscent of Wag the Dog; it knows how fucked politics is and acts accordingly. It received mixed reviews, despite Bullock's performance being largely praised, and was a box office disappointment. By the way, the bus driver is paid to drive like a complete moron to do it. All contents 2023 The Slate Group LLC. The protest is growing in the city. Maybe its time to put it out to pasture. What sealed the deal was that she will be coming up against her long-time arch-nemesis, Pat Candy. Mick LaSalle is the film critic for the San . In a restaurant, Jane sits alone until Candy sits next to her. Arriving at Janes house, she explains she has quit smoking and drinking and has focused on pottery. Candy is outside the hotel in his chauffeur-driven SUV and offers Jane, Ben, and Nell a ride to the airport. But the fact that it wants to also squeeze in a redemptive tale. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. The film is directed by David. In Bolivia, altitude sickness (at 12 thousand feet, La Paz is the worlds highest capital) and sickness with the candidate nearly drive her away. 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. "- Castillo: This llama will lead us toward prosperity. It is a record turnout and at days end, the results are: Castillo 23.5%, Rivera 22.8%, Volasco 21.9%. Jane and her team had no idea he would do that. [13] Peter Straughan was set to write the script, with Clooney attached as a potential director and star for the film, about the 2002 Bolivian presidential election's campaign by James Carville's Washington, D.C.-based political consulting firm Greenberg Carville Shrum,[14][15] which was hired by candidate Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada. Jane is on the set but is only seen in the background on a lounge chair, still looking unwell. GCS brings in Jane Bodine to manage the campaign in Bolivia--battling her arch-nemesis, the opposition's political consultant Pat Candy. When Jane realizes how much she hurt the country, shes so upset that she actually quits her business and joins the protesters. Does he drink too much? From that day on, she says, our brand is crisis.. - Jane: It's like he killed himself rather than appear in our commercial.". (R. 107 minutes.) 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? The message I got from this movie was very positive. Smoke too much? 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. Throughout almost all of the film, Jane and her team use dirty manipulation to campaign for Castillo. for language including some sexual references. OUR BRAND IS CRISIS barely holds together as the story moves from campaign incident to campaign incident. She comes to realize shes better than that. "Our Brand is Crisis" was one of these pleasant surprises. 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. It's a game that has a real impact on people's lives, but a game nonetheless. There's only one wrong in this, only one, and that is losing!". Answer, spin doctors / truth and lies in political campaigns, how marketing strategies are use to manipulate the opinions of voters, evaluate the claim that theres only one wrong in political campaigns and thats losing, evaluate the comment, if you fight monsters too long, you become one, VOTINGDo Christians have an obligation to vote? [8] On September 24, Ann Dowd joined the film. She doesnt believe hell catch her and he expresses disbelief. There is something deeply disturbing about American political strategists helping an unpopular politician return back to presidency in a country as different as Bolivia. Our sophisticated political flimflam could make more inroads than the Marshall Plan. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Illustration by Hudson Christie. Castillo had been coached by Jane that if he senses any emotion or tears, to look directly into the camera. 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