Her words are intercut with footage of newspaper headlines and, oddly, shots of Bullocks hands molding clay at a pottery wheel. 17-Down, Three Letters: Party for One artist Carly ___ Jepsen. Negative ads are now running for Castillos campaign. The interviewer talks about his son. 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. Ideology? Old colleague Nell (Ann Dowd) brings young idealistic Ben (Anthony Mackie) up to the woods to coax Jane down to Bolivia, to manage the presidential campaign of a conservative senator whose prior stint as head of that country was pretty authoritarian. Our Brand Is Crisis. By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive email correspondence from us. 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. [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". 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. In Bolivia, altitude sickness (at 12 thousand feet, La Paz is the worlds highest capital) and sickness with the candidate nearly drive her away. 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. Our sophisticated political flimflam could make more inroads than the Marshall Plan. The villagers are angrily blocking the bus, and Castillo, against the wishes of Jane, gets off to talk with them. Jane says it will be an honor. 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. 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. Thats why Hollywood had to invent a character with such powers: the knowing, salty political consultant. 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. The film gives a fictionalized account of the involvement of American political campaign strategists Greenberg Carville Shrum (GCS) in the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. See list of Relevant Issuesquestions-and-answers. But the main mystery to me was the message of this film. Before long the SUV comes to a stop in the heavy traffic on the tiny streets. Jane invites them out to dinner with the campaign team. It's a case study, if nothing else, of starting with a dubious idea and making it downright awful. The premise doesn't really show up until the end of the movie. She looks across the large foyer to see Candy sitting outside his room. 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. David Gordon Green keeps the perspectives shifting, getting lots of good angles on this three-ring circus. : What The Hell Happened? The pacing is. A llama is shown getting hit by a car. All rights reserved. Reluctantly enlisted to help elect the unlikable bully Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida), Jane gets the bit between her teeth when she discovers that her arch-rival, Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), is running the oppositions campaign. Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant strategist, pulse reader and marketing mind. 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. [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. [4] It was theatrically released by Warner Bros. on October 30, 2015. Castillo promises them that he will not invite the IMF without a public referendum. She realizes that she was deceived by Castillo, just like she was attempting to deceive the people of Bolivia. I can barely imagine the humiliation! Since The War Room, the omnipotent, omniscient celebrity political consultant has been portrayed again and again. Jane yells out the window to Candy that Rivera has dropped 6 points. I think you pull it, Joshua Jackson says to Lizzy Caplan sensually. In the mix is a fine supporting cast including a sensational Thornton . She needs a cigarette, so she walks out the door into a large open foyer. Rivera is on, holding two babies during a campaign stop, confessing how hes doubly lucky, and promises to run a positive campaign. 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. Unfortunately, the quote is actually from Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda. What sealed the deal was that she will be coming up against her long-time arch-nemesis, Pat Candy. 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. LeBlanc finds even more dirt on Rivera, but Jane tells her to focus everything on finding dirt on Castillo. But Boynton has done her own framing: This campaign is a precursor to tragedy. The last movie I reviewed was Burnt, which was called a comedy by many, but I found it not to be a comedy at alljust a drama with occasional humor. The campaign advisors are telling Castillo he needs to meet with the people and be seen as one of the people. She explains its not relevant whether its true. They make big promises that mean jack shit. Getting hurt is unavoidable, she tells him. She is then seen in the middle of the protest, and sees Eddie. It is only the knowing, salty political consultant who can bridge the gap between political reality and tidy fictional narrative. She insists Castillo express regret, but not to apologize. She moved to a mountain cabin, stopped smoking, got sober, and started doing pottery. 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? After he does this, Castillo gives Eddie his cufflinks to hold, and it is clear Eddie idolizes him. Joaquim de Almeida - Castillo. 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. Nevertheless, his brothers are much more skeptical about Castillo. 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. The problem is that they do such a good job selling this Jane that they do exactly what theyre supposed to do: They make you curious about her. 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. Carville and Greenberg won that election for Goni, after shifting the entire theme of his campaign to the crisis mantra, but maybe they should have vetted their candidate a little better. [11], Principal photography on the film began on September 29, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana, using 35mm film. Morales government has dramatically reduced poverty and inequality, and presided over one of the worlds fastest-growing economies, right through the crash of 2008. Candy tells her he knows it was Jane who planted the fliers of Castillos infidelity in order to force Castillo to run a negative campaign. Castillo is frustrated and wants to hear what Jane has planned for the campaign. When they get home, his brothers ridicule Eddie for bringing Yankees and trusting them, and for that matter, trusting Castillo. Not all movies preach, for example, action movies are usually more about the entertainment of watching good triumph over evil. Castillo tells her she needs professional help for wanting to do anything to win. Loosely based on true events, Our Brand Is Crisis, follows Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) and her campaign team when they are hired to help Pedro Castillo win a presidential election in Bolivia. Some of her pranks, specifically one ploy to feed her candidates unsuspecting competitor a Nazi quotation during the campaigns final debate, are good for a laugh. However, Castillo refuses to give permission for the team to do so. Does he drink too much? Eddie is delivering a framed photograph to now President-Elect Castillos Senate offices. He is currently 28 points behind. 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. He overhears him making plans to visit the IMF in New York, and is crestfallen. She spends the night in jail. Mimicking the behavior in the actresss previous film, Minions, Jane is shown mooning a bus. 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. Um, yes. One of the llamas is hit by a truck. They just decided to be ingratiating and sentimental. A graphic shows with 24 days left until the election, Castillo has 19% and Rivera has 30%. Jane is seen having a moment of introspection. The deeply disappointed Eduardo visits Bodine in her hotel; Bodine replies that she is not responsible for Castillo's actions. Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. Is it money? They are then in a restaurant, the entire campaign team drinking heavily. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. Cut back to the interview that opened the film. Eddie and his brothers join the protests and are shouting angry chants. Who paid for it? ***SPOILER*** Castillo wins the election, and immediately breaks all his promises and turns out to be a tyrant. That kind of consumer response is pretty remarkable, and it also says something about each brand's crisis management strategies. 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. As a result of this, Castillo agrees to start running a negative campaign. Starring Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton. Ben jumps out and yells, get in the car, what are you doing? [11] More casting was also announced, which included Reynaldo Pacheco, Dominic Flores, Louis Arcella, and Octavio Gmez. Later shell claim he got the room intentionally to get under her skin. And Im not talking about content issues, like language or nudity, Im talking about the message the movie preaches at the audience. In the following months, the team exercises a strategy of "declaring a crisis". 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. It casts a skeptical eye at the gospel of globalization thats preached by Janes team, but its outrage is more directed at cynicism than at any specific system. She comes to realize shes better than that. Jane is on the set but is only seen in the background on a lounge chair, still looking unwell. 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. She reveals she has had mental issues before and suffered from depression. The opposition's top political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy. His name is too long with her so she just calls him Eddie. 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. [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. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Realizing that her candidate, Senator Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida) cant win by being likable, they decide to use fear as their issue, sell that Bolivia is a nation in crisis, and hes the only many that can save it. Meanwhile, Thornton employs his well-honed smiling/sneering shtick to nicely nasty effect. January 14, 2016. The women of, Sam Levinson and the Weeknd Allegedly Turned, Theres No Red Button You Can Push to Stop. 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. A senior advisor expresses dismay that she has been hired but all shes doing is sunning herself. Instead, both end up outside of their hotel rooms so they can see each other. In its best moments, Our Brand Is Crisis is reminiscent of Wag the Dog; it knows how fucked politics is and acts accordingly. By the way, the bus driver is paid to drive like a complete moron to do it. A one-stop-shop for all things video games. She really truly does.). The pottery business is explained forthwith, lest were worried about some Ghost influence. "Wake up, this is war. But the filmmakers invent an antagonist of near-mythic stature to make her lust for a win: Billy Bob Thorntons Pat Candy, who works for the leading candidate. They reluctantly agree, but the city is in gridlock due to the protests, which are on the verge of becoming riots. 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. Violence: Moderate / Profanity: Heavy / Sex/Nudity: Moderate to heavys. This is yet another film that could have been PG (maybe PG-13 due to a mooning scene) with a cleaner script. Afterwards, Jane sends 3 Bolivian singers to show up at Candys door. A screenshot shows Castillo at 8% with Rivera leading with 36%. A young man working on the campaign, Eduardo (Reynaldo Pacheco) comes to the rescue of Castillo and ushers him away. document.write(ts+'script src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad12539a.cgi/v=2.3S/sz=728x90A|970x66A/'+rnum+'/'+nf+'RETURN-CODE/JS/">'+ts+'/script>'); You can send in your spoiler to other movies by going here. 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 film stars Sandra Bullock, Scoot McNairy, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd and Joaquim de Almeida. [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. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. "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. All this makes for mid-grade entertainment value, at best. That's true even in "Our Brand Is Crisis," a . The disillusioned Eduardo joins his brothers at a demonstration of people demanding change. There is only one wrong thing to do, she says: Losing. 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. And while the role of Calamity Jane smacks of Sandra Bullocks brandingthe smart but painfully self-conscious klutz whos also a depressiveits a complicated, maybe even feminist shtick. 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. Jane highlights something in the book. Director David Gordon Green Writers Rachel Boynton (suggested by the documentary) Peter Straughan (screenplay) Stars Sandra Bullock The way Jane and her team approaches politics makes them good at their job, but it also makes them cynical people, and the movie rarely questions their behavior until the very end when it does so in the most heavy-handed manner possible. She just needs to hear him deny it. Cyril Ramaphosa's ANC Renew22 grouping believes Eastern Cape . South Africa - DM Listen, 18 Dec Ramaphosa's Renew22 team decides to back Mabuyane over Lamola - When the Renew22 caucus met on Day 3 of the ANC's National Elective Conference, at least 2,400 delegates agreed to support Cyril Ramaphosa's bid for a second term as party president, with Oscar Mabuyane as his second in command. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. Mostly he is just a funny Southern person who served on a successful presidential campaign; the rest is projected onto him. Jane says its just a carousel and she was going around and around. "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,. 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. During a focus group for the ad in which he catches and holds up several people, its clear the ad does not resonate with anybody. She doesnt think the man should change to fit the narrative but instead the narrative should change to fit the man. [10] On October 13, 2014, Participant Media announced that they would co-finance the film with Warner, while Jeffrey Skoll and Jonathan King would executive produce, along with Bullock and Stuart M. Its very obvious when shes going to do it, so it would be easy for viewers to close their eyes until all the yelling and laughter dies down. - Jane: It's like he killed himself rather than appear in our commercial.". 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. Politics takes to cynicism like shit to a cesspool. 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. In her eyes, her job is done. A bra is used as a slingshot, and two shirtless men are briefly shown. [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. 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). This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. 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. The news that Jane will be pitted against political consultant Pat Candy, with whom she has a past, is enough to get her away from the wheel. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. Goni fled the country five days later, and now lives in exile in the U.S., which has refused to extradite him to Bolivia to face trial for extrajudicial killings and other crimes against humanity. "- Castillo: This llama will lead us toward prosperity. 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? 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. At another meeting with advisors, its revealed the crisis message is working, but not so well that it will win the election. 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. By what name was Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) officially released in India in English? 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. Castillo and the campaign team are on the outdoor set of a commercial for the Senator. ------------------------------------------. It also sets up a Hollywood ending that all but wrecks the movie. Rated R When people say its a communist movie, I think they are hugely misunderstanding the movies point. "Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders. There is something deeply disturbing about American political strategists helping an unpopular politician return back to presidency in a country as different as Bolivia. 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. Yes, this is a movie where a diabolical character is given the surname Candy, and what can you really say? What are you going to do? and then leaves. Gonis second term as president barely lasted a year, after his plans to allow an international consortium to build a pipeline and ship Bolivian natural gas to North America at dirt-cheap prices sparked a massive popular uprising. Rivera then repeats the quote Jane told Candy. Power? That was almost certainly the final straw. Some said it was staunchly communist. ***END SPOILER***. Walking into the room with the campaign team, she gives a fiery and inspirational speech about how important it is to go negative, and that anybody with a problem with that will be given a set of balls. Can Hollywood find a way to take the political consultant character in a new direction? Jane is a broken prizefighter who has been called into the ring for one last round. Principal photography began on September 29, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Eventually Eddie sees her and they make eye contact. Privacy Policy and A lethally effective charm delivery system, Sandra Bullock doesn't need to do much to win you over. Comedy-Drama. Either the character repents, and you have a cornball ending, or the character doesnt, and you have a soapy endorsement of sociopathy. Played for laughs? At least not right away. She then asks who knows English and only a handful of people raise their hands, so LeBlanc must translate. They talk about the book and Mephistopheles, with whom Faust makes a wager for his soul. Our Brand Is Crisis Review: Champions of Cynicism | TIFF 2015. 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. 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. 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. Somebody on the Castillo bus says Jane has a great ass! (And she does. OUR BRAND IS CRISIS NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Jason The film starts with Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) being interviewed. 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. An SUV carrying the Castillo advisors sees him and stop to give him a ride home, insisted upon by Jane. Oct. 29, 2015. Nevertheless, theres not much reason for you to take my word over theirs. In a restaurant, Jane sits alone until Candy sits next to her. Sometimes its both, as in Kathy Bates sharp-tongued, soft-hearted adviser in Primary Colors. Castillo immediately punches the man. 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. 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. 1h 47m. They plan to frighten the people, with the aim of persuading them to vote for the unsympathetic but known Castillo rather than the younger opposition candidates. So they cop out, closing on an unlikely, feel-good character turn for Bodine. Mick LaSalle is the film critic for the San . 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. All rights reserved. However it is better and more gratifying to win the heart of a nation and keep it. 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