May 16, 2003
Brown Bunny, The
filed under: Cannes Film Festival 2003
New York provocateur Vincent Gallo has pumped some juice into what has been termed an otherwise limp Cannes Film Festival with his latest writing-directing-producing-editing-starring effort, The Brown Bunny. The movie focuses on Gallo driving endlessly and reflecting on life until arthouse siren Chloe Sevigny blows by late in the proceedings as his ex-girlfriend. At the one hour and 50 minute mark, Vincent guides his meat-gallow into Chloe's open kisser for an up-close, uncensored, have-some-Kleenex-handy bout of oral sex. Let's repeat to be clear: mainstream American actress Chloe Sevigny opens her mouth, scary-looking filmmaker and egotist Vincent Gallo inserts himself therein and the camera shows every ensuing lick, slurp, gulp, swallow, dribble, hip-buck, fist-pump and kielbasa-kiss for the next three minutes. There's no "money shot," per se, but catch this breakthrough as it goes down in history. Critic Roger Ebert has deemed The Brown Bunny "the single worst film to ever play the Cannes Film Festival," perhaps because he didn't want any ambiguity to result from his opinion that the movie "sucks."
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