SPECIAL SCREENING - MISTER LONELY, HARMONY KORINE IN PERSON!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
7PM Screening with Q&A to follow
Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Flr.
Free for IFP members and guest
Only Harmony Korine (writer of KIDS, auteur of GUMMO, JULIEN DONKEY-BOY) could weave Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, her daughter Shirley Temple and flying nuns into a hypnotically funny and truly poignant tale of the instability behind fanaticism and the redemption we can hope to find in one another. The film follows a lonely Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) who is invited by a beautiful Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton) to a commune full of other impersonators including the Queen of England, Madonna, Sammy Davis Junior and James Dean, in the Scottish Highlands. In a parallel story line, the incomparable Werner Herzog plays a Latin American priest who learns his missionary of nuns can literally fly.
Director Harmony Korine will be in attendance.
Please RSVP to chicago@ifp.org or call us at 312 235 0161.