And sometimesin fact, I daresay oftenyou know about a half hour into a film that youre going to have to censure it. A man in a mask jumps the barrier and smashes an egg on Castillos forehead. 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). His slickness fits the milieu. 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. Washed-up political strategist Jane Bodine is hired by a political consultancy to help their client, Senator Castillo, win the Bolivian general election. Candy goes on to tell Jane, If you fight with monsters too long, you become a monster. Jane later says that shell kill herself if she loses to Candy again (though this appears to be hyperbole) She has lost every election against him. [3] The film opened on October 30, 2015, alongside Burnt and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. January 14, 2016. At a Rivera campaign stop, Jane is seen talking to Candy. 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. The firm brings in "Calamity" Jane Bodine to manage Castillo's fledging campaign. 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. 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. She pulls from her bag the pottery bowl that Ben was admiring in the first scene, and hands it to him before climbing out of the car. They approach each other and she just smiles. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive email correspondence from us. ***END SPOILER***. You want to know how the Janes of the world happen. But it never keeps the energy up, steering into forced visual gags, dull spells of earnestness, and ponderous backstory psychologythe viewer never is quite sure who really did what to whom in the Candy-Bodine love-hate relationship. Throughout almost all of the film, Jane and her team use dirty manipulation to campaign for Castillo. She then offers money to the driver to overtake the Rivera bus. At a large debate with all the candidates, Jane is found behind the stage backdrop during the debate. Loosely based on the 2005 documentary of the same name, Our Brand is Crisis offers a fictionalized take on the 2002 Bolivian Presidential election with a cast that includes Academy Award. They make big promises that mean jack shit. Getting hurt is unavoidable, she tells him. Since 2006, Bolivia has been governed by Evo Morales, the indigenous leader whose protest movement led to Gonis downfall. 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. A timeline of the (alleged) drama involving Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles, and Florence Pugh. Not all movies preach, for example, action movies are usually more about the entertainment of watching good triumph over evil. Its yoked to an impoverished Bolivian teenager who believesdespite the angry effusions of his brother and friends in their hillside slumthat Castillo is sincere in trying to bring about economic equality. 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. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. In its best moments, Our Brand Is Crisis is reminiscent of Wag the Dog; it knows how fucked politics is and acts accordingly. Politics is a dirty business, but Our Brand Is Crisis doesn't stick its hands into the muck sufficiently to be as entertaining or stinging as it could be. This is the meaning of the title. She then asks who knows English and only a handful of people raise their hands, so LeBlanc must translate. There's only one wrong in this, only one, and that is losing!". A bra is used as a slingshot, and two shirtless men are briefly shown. 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. Politics takes to cynicism like shit to a cesspool. We root for Jane to win and feel guilty for caring more about the game than the country. [20], In July 2015, Warner Bros. scheduled the film for an October 30, 2015 release, during the awards season. But at the end, their methods are exposed to the viewers as evil. Like before, it came from La Paz Grassroots, but this time it really did come from Candy. A bus race ensues around dangerous bends and cliffs. Montage of the press reporting throughout the day. When it does, Jane moons the Rivera bus. Comedy-Drama. Our Brand is Crisis (2015) (964) 6.1 1 h 47 min 2015 X-Ray R. A Bolivian presidential candidate failing in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist Jane Bodine. The deeply disappointed Eduardo visits Bodine in her hotel; Bodine replies that she is not responsible for Castillo's actions. This is a competent film that shows how foxy political campaigns can be. I found the film to be very interesting, and all the cast put on some of their best performances Ive seen. That is now the title of the Bullock movie directed by indie-film veteran David Gordon Green and written by Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), which is also set during a Bolivian presidential campaign and stars Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Scoot McNairy, Ann Dowd and Zoe Kazan as Bullocks rivals or colleagues in the Machiavellian business of reinventing candidates and reshaping public opinion. Senator Pedro Castillo, President of Bolivia 15 years ago, is once again running for the country's top job. 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. "- Castillo: This llama will lead us toward prosperity. Candy is outside the hotel in his chauffeur-driven SUV and offers Jane, Ben, and Nell a ride to the airport. Thats the problem with focusing a story on the diabolical strategist, the one mythical figure in this godforsaken political system whos got it all figured out. Screenwriter Peter Straughans script originally featured a male protagonist, but Bullock makes the role her own, from vomiting into a wastepaper basket and mooning the opposition to shrewdly choreographing an on-air attack of tears for her candidate. Exactly who decided that a widely disliked candidate in such a small country merited such attention, alongside such star GCS clients as Tony Blair, the Israeli Labor Party and the Canadian Liberal Party? There is only one wrong thing to do, she says: Losing. [17][18] Filming also took place in the Bonnet Carr Spillway in Norco in St. Charles Parish. [3], The film opened on October 30, 2015, alongside Burnt and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. But once in Bolivia, shes sidelined by acute altitude sickness (the flight down is accompanied by a primer on the geography and general stressed disposition of the place), and hence unable to immediately show her Sun-Tzu-informed genius to uptight candidate Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida). An SUV carrying the Castillo advisors sees him and stop to give him a ride home, insisted upon by Jane. Jane is goaded by patronizing men into proving herself in ways shes not proud of. Ben says, ok. Jane is seen having a moment of introspection. Castillo had been coached by Jane that if he senses any emotion or tears, to look directly into the camera. [4] It was theatrically released by Warner Bros. on October 30, 2015. As it happens and Im sure all this is coincidental Bolivia contains immense natural gas reserves, the second-largest in South America after Venezuela, whose national resources had been rendered largely off limits to outside investors by the rise of socialist president Hugo Chvez. Answer, Does HIGH MORAL CHARACTER matter in political leaders? Mick LaSalle. Thats why in a time of ever-greater political chaos, the character rings so false. As one of his first actions, he invites the IMF into Bolivia, thereby breaking his promise. And yet in David Gordon Greens tale of political fixers, Our Brand Is Crisis, he wants to find hope. NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Jason. 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? 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. Ben meets her in the hallway and she immediately says hes not a winner, and he cannot win. That's true even in "Our Brand Is Crisis," a . [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. One woman says he has a weird smile. Entertaining and provocative, Our Brand Is Crisis is a satirical political drama. 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. Jane says that Pat Candy is behind the fliers. ------------------------------------------. 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. The pacing is. All this makes for mid-grade entertainment value, at best. Since 2013, the study of English and history has dropped by a third; the number of STEM degrees, meanwhile, is soaring. By Manohla Dargis. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. It is a record turnout and at days end, the results are: Castillo 23.5%, Rivera 22.8%, Volasco 21.9%. Sandra Bullock (who shares producer credits with, among others, George Clooney and Grant Heslov) is the reclusive political strategist Calamity Jane Bodine, who turned her back on her profession after one dirty trick too many. She doesnt respond. Our Brand Is Crisis review - dirty political dealings in South America. Send your questions or comments about this or any other spoiler to: THEMOVIESPOILER.com. [24], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 35% based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. You never find out. Jane yells out the window to Candy that Rivera has dropped 6 points. Not seeing what she highlighted, Candy asks about it. When Jane realizes how much she hurt the country, shes so upset that she actually quits her business and joins the protesters. 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. At another commercial set inside a warehouse, several llamas are there, and Castillo is set to compare the future of Bolivia with llamas, who work hard. The disillusioned Eduardo joins his brothers at a demonstration of people demanding change. 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. That kind of consumer response is pretty remarkable, and it also says something about each brand's crisis management strategies. Yes, this is a movie where a diabolical character is given the surname Candy, and what can you really say? Mick LaSalle is the film critic for the San . Directed by David Gordon Green. And in the real Bolivian election of 02, there was no rivalry between warring American spin doctors working for different candidates, because Goni was the only candidate who got that kind of help, in clear preference to his populist opponents on both the right and left. Busy Phillips Is Not Like a Regular Mom, Shes a Cool Mom, Theres nothing wrong with Busy Phillips being cast as Mrs. George in the upcoming, In Search of Tom and Katies Bubba Painting, Maybe punting on the larger plot can be forgiven if we get a sweet. 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. [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". All contents 2023 The Slate Group LLC. Rivera then repeats the quote Jane told Candy. Sometimes its both, as in Kathy Bates sharp-tongued, soft-hearted adviser in Primary Colors. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Bodine and her crew join Candy on the way to the airport. At first Jane is defensive, claiming that she was just doing her job, but soon her heart is softened as she realizes the mess she helped to make. "Our Brand is Crisis" was one of these pleasant surprises. The emotional investment Green wants to make in Jane feels misplaced, especially since he also wants to celebrate moments when she behaves abhorrently. Nell explains that Castillos opponent, Rivera, has hired her old arch nemesis, Pat Candy (played by Billy Bob Thornton). Soon enough she is smoking, drinking, and scheming again, signaling to the viewer that shes back to her antiheroic winning ways. On April 22, 2007, it was announced that George Clooney would produce a dramatization of the 2005 documentary Our Brand Is Crisis, along with Grant Heslov, and Warner Bros. would handle American distribution rights. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. Candy says he will be going to overseas for a British campaign. [5] On September 11, Scoot McNairy was added to the cast. (Vice) President Selina Meyers (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has a stable of advisers including Dan Egan (Reid Scott) and Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) who have internalized and aspire to the Carville cult; its just that reality interrupts to remind them that things dont work like that. 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. 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. Mimicking the behavior in the actresss previous film, Minions, Jane is shown mooning a bus. They reluctantly agree, but the city is in gridlock due to the protests, which are on the verge of becoming riots. Fliers are discovered, authored by the La Paz Grassroots that say Castillo had a three year affair. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Its pretty powerful, actually. David Gordon Green keeps the perspectives shifting, getting lots of good angles on this three-ring circus. A lethally effective charm delivery system, Sandra Bullock doesn't need to do much to win you over. Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) Plot Showing all 5 items Jump to: Summaries (4) Synopsis (1) Summaries A battle-hardened American political consultant is sent to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate. 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.. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. But the fact that it wants to also squeeze in a redemptive tale. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. On a scale of laminated-eyebrow drama to Lemon Lady Secrets. 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. 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. By what name was Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) officially released in India in English? 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. Jane tells him this is the way of politics, and its not her job to solve problems after the election. Before I address the message, Ill review the content. In my review of the documentary, I wrote: The process of framing Goni to look like something he isnt could be the stuff of a rambunctious campaign comedy like Primary Colors or, for that matter, the documentary The War Room And parts of Our Brand Is Crisis are darkly amusing. Several candidates separate the two. Both Bullock and Thornton portray Carvillesque characters (and the bald Thornton looks the part). She comes to realize shes better than that. Finally, she meets with Castillo for their first conversation. But it seems as though screenwriter Peter Straughan and director David Gordon Green realized near the end that theyd written a feature-length film celebrating consultants ability to install a lying, oligarchic, IMF-beholden stooge to a South American presidency, and decided they ought to wrap things up more palatably. Initially under the impression that her man is a dud, Jane is soon animated by Castillos spontaneous response to getting egged (that is, he decks the egger) and her personal animus against Candy. However, when two strategists for a struggling Bolivian presidential campaign pique her interest, she goes down to the South American country to see if she should get back in the fight. So they cop out, closing on an unlikely, feel-good character turn for Bodine. "Wake up, this is war. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. Its cute for a while. The message I got from this movie was very positive. She finally just decided to get off the carousel. "Our Brand Is Crisis" is both the title of and a line from a new political comedy about American consultants who take over a Bolivian presidential campaign. All the stupid tricks are here, the ones people laugh at onscreen in the context of a film like this but fall for in spite of themselves on their TVs during football games. By the way, the bus driver is paid to drive like a complete moron to do it. Jane is so nauseous from her travel and the elevation she leaves and is heard throwing up. A montage shows the crisis message is working and support for Castillo is growing. 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. Outside, a large groan is heard. She cares about winning, and the movie reinforces the narrative that politics is just a game. The rest of the movie is her telling the story of what happened after her resignation. He cant reconcile that her success also makes her a bad person. 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. Unfortunately, the quote is actually from Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda. Before a campaign stop, Jane tells Eddie to help Castillo roll up his sleeves. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. [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. (R. 107 minutes.) There are dozens of pottery jars and bowls covering the walls. : What The Hell Happened? Our sophisticated political flimflam could make more inroads than the Marshall Plan. "[25] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". (A heavy back story is subsequently revealed, followed by an ever heavier back story to the back story.) [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. The film is directed by David. Rated R Later Castillo is heard instructing interest rates to be raised to 15%. See list of Relevant Issuesquestions-and-answers. Jane suggests that Castillo reveal everything that could be used against him, but he refuses. 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. 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