Jane insist they go negative in spite of this, but Castillo says no. This was the lowest wide release opening of Bullock's career, beating 1996's Two If by Sea ($4.7 million). Jane invites them out to dinner with the campaign team. Though not without its entertaining momentsthe cast, led by Sandra Bullock, is energetic, sharp and gets a fair number of juicy bits to rock out with. The image of that boy haunts Our Brand Is Crisis, so that the U.S. strategists who do a bang-up job of getting the wrong man elected to the wrong place at the wrong time look like agents of catastrophe.. [11], Principal photography on the film began on September 29, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana, using 35mm film. A screenshot shows Castillo at 8% with Rivera leading with 36%. Does he drink too much? [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. However, Castillo refuses to give permission for the team to do so. 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. She doesnt believe hell catch her and he expresses disbelief. When Jane leaves the meeting with LeBlanc, she instead instructs her to dig up dirt on Castillo, their own candidate. George Clooney and Grant Heslov produced. 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. 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. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. I need a majority. The filmmakers and their stars have fun with the idea that politics is sex for those who want to keep their clothes on. They reluctantly agree, but the city is in gridlock due to the protests, which are on the verge of becoming riots. In a restaurant, Jane sits alone until Candy sits next to her. [24], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 35% based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. Washed-up political strategist Jane Bodine is hired by a political consultancy to help their client, Senator Castillo, win the Bolivian general election. The rest of the movie is her telling the story of what happened after her resignation. 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. Castillo immediately punches the man. Greens last three picturesPrince Avalanche, Joe, and Manglehornfelt like personal indie films, and Our Brand Is Crisis seems like an attempt to reach back into the mainstream with a mix of comedy and pathos, and yet it also comes off like a journeyman feature. It also sets up a Hollywood ending that all but wrecks the movie. Covering Rammsteins Du Hast in Berlin. Jane yells out the window to Candy that Rivera has dropped 6 points. Jane tells him this is the way of politics, and its not her job to solve problems after the election. To handle this scandal, Castillo is interviewed on TV and explains it was a visit to his son, who IS a member of the cult, and he had to wear the robe. It is only after Bodine arranges for the distribution of a flyer accusing Castillo of a long-ago affair (and blaming it on the opposition) does she finally get him to agree to smear his opponents. She tells Castillo and the campaign that this is no longer an election, it is a crisis. In the city, Eddie is hanging Castillo posters. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. Maybe, kinda. Castillo promises the people that will happen if hes elected. Back at Janes hotel, Ben calls and informs her there will be a protest downtown. [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. 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. 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. This satire, directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay by Peter Straughan, suffers from deficits of wit, wisdom, focus, filmmaking expertise and appropriate tone. A bra is used as a slingshot, and two shirtless men are briefly shown. 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. Well, this is the rambunctious comedy version of Our Brand Is Crisis, framed by director David Gordon Green and the British writer Peter Straughan not with a dead boy but the personal odyssey of a fictional character. When the gunfire stops, the camera moves in on a boy sitting on the steps of a building, his head partly covered by his coat as if hes grabbing a nap. She needs a cigarette, so she walks out the door into a large open foyer. Castillo promises them that he will not invite the IMF without a public referendum. He overhears him making plans to visit the IMF in New York, and is crestfallen. There are 12 misuses of god, Jesus (1), Jesus Christ (1), hell (3) and d*mn (3). Candy says he will be going to overseas for a British campaign. The political comedy Our Brand Is Crisis stars Sandra Bullock as an American campaign strategist hired to work for a Bolivian presidential candidate. Oct. 29, 2015. It needs a strongman who can handle a crisis. 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.. What sealed the deal was that she will be coming up against her long-time arch-nemesis, Pat Candy. A montage shows the crisis message is working and support for Castillo is growing. 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. 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. 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. For people who want the vastly more interesting real history of Americas misbegotten meddling in Bolivia just one chapter, of course, in a much larger global story Boyntons film is out there, and so is what happened later. After he does this, Castillo gives Eddie his cufflinks to hold, and it is clear Eddie idolizes him. Castillo says its in the past, and that his wife knows about it, but Jane claims the perception will be that hes an adulterer. [3], The film opened on October 30, 2015, alongside Burnt and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. Jane suggests that Castillo reveal everything that could be used against him, but he refuses. And sometimesin fact, I daresay oftenyou know about a half hour into a film that youre going to have to censure it. In 2002, Bolivian politician Pedro Gallo hires American James Carville's political consulting firm, Greenberg Carville Shrum, to help him win the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. 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. She introduces LeBlanc (Zoe Kazan), a young investigator who is hired to dig up dirt on Rivera. Throughout almost all of the film, Jane and her team use dirty manipulation to campaign for Castillo. There is only one wrong thing to do, she says: Losing. A graphic shows with 24 days left until the election, Castillo has 19% and Rivera has 30%. 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. Afterwards, Jane sends 3 Bolivian singers to show up at Candys door. On a scale of laminated-eyebrow drama to Lemon Lady Secrets. Our Brand is Crisis was released across all major streaming and cable platforms on Tuesday, January 19, 2016. Later, two senior advisors argue the crisis brand may have worked with the current crowd, but it wont with the working class. [3] The film opened on October 30, 2015, alongside Burnt and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. Now, the film is so heavily fictionalized that it's much more an emotive or thematic . 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. They just decided to be ingratiating and sentimental. Jane wakes up in her hotel room. But at the end, their methods are exposed to the viewers as evil. But the fact that it wants to also squeeze in a redemptive tale is completely at odds with the work the protagonist is doing. The train begins to leave and Candy is furious. The 2005 Our Brand Is Crisis was the second documentary about Carville's political work, following 1993's The War Room, in addition to Carville's dramatic acting rsum and cable news career.. [26] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale. Terms of Service apply. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. This is the meaning of the title. The film is directed by David. There are very occasional crude sexual references. Nevertheless, his brothers are much more skeptical about Castillo. Before long the SUV comes to a stop in the heavy traffic on the tiny streets. The opposition's top political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy. 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. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. Castillo wins the vote by a small margin. 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. Hollywood loves it some Ragin Cajun, because hes the closest real-life approximation to the magical political consultant of its dreams. She just needs to hear him deny it. Our sophisticated political flimflam could make more inroads than the Marshall Plan. Can Hollywood find a way to take the political consultant character in a new direction? As one of his first moves as president, Morales unilaterally reversed the terms of Bolivias natural gas contracts with foreign corporations: Instead of the investors getting 82 percent of the profits and the Bolivian state getting 18 percent, it was suddenly the other way around. Negative ads are now running for Castillos campaign. Cyril Ramaphosa's ANC Renew22 grouping believes Eastern Cape . Mimicking the behavior in the actresss previous film, Minions, Jane is shown mooning a bus. Rivera then repeats the quote Jane told Candy. At the start, Jane has been out of the consulting game for several years, following a traumatic mayoral race. 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. 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. Um, yes. Later at her hotel room, she is still nauseous from the elevation. When youre in the movie reviewing ministry, a variety of messages and agendas come and go. February 27, 2023. Our Brand is Crisis review: While the film is heart-warmingly centered on Bullock, she is at her best neurotic, desperate, redeemable self. (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. 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. 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. In its best moments, Our Brand Is Crisis is reminiscent of Wag the Dog; it knows how fucked politics is and acts accordingly. In her eyes, her job is done. When she starts giving it back to himpsyching him outthe movie gets really good. We know this stuff happens, but its still clarifying to see the curtains pulled back. A lethally effective charm delivery system, Sandra Bullock doesn't need to do much to win you over. Despite Sandra Bullocks strong lead performance, David Gordon Greens film cant push a hopeful tone past its depressing reality. Nell explains that Castillos opponent, Rivera, has hired her old arch nemesis, Pat Candy (played by Billy Bob Thornton). Answer, Should Christians seek political power or should we only focus on evangelism? Not all movies preach, for example, action movies are usually more about the entertainment of watching good triumph over evil. She is unable to breath and is using an oxygen mask on the car ride to campaign headquarters. This film isnt as dark as Burnt, and has more amusing moments, including some comic relief, but still shouldnt be classified as a comedy. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. Sometimes its both, as in Kathy Bates sharp-tongued, soft-hearted adviser in Primary Colors. 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. A young man working on the campaign, Eduardo (Reynaldo Pacheco) comes to the rescue of Castillo and ushers him away. 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The interviewer says shes been known by many names, most notably Calamity Jane. Well, that would be you and me both before and after. He is a crook. It is only the knowing, salty political consultant who can bridge the gap between political reality and tidy fictional narrative. All this makes for mid-grade entertainment value, at best. When it does, Jane moons the Rivera bus. Jane says There is only one wrong in this, and that is losing. But at the end, the team realizes how wrong they werein a shocking way. Thornton is sleek, clammy, and leering. A timeline of the (alleged) drama involving Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles, and Florence Pugh. A shame, then, that the movie loses its cynical nerve with an utterly phoney finale that ties itself up in conscientious knots. In its best moments, Our Brand Is Crisis is reminiscent of Wag the Dog; it knows how fucked politics is and acts accordingly. "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. She quotes, It may be alright to have a power that is based on guns. Others discuss plans but Jane is silent. Boynton traveled to Bolivia to cover the activity of a high-priced U.S. consulting firm, Greenberg Carville, and Shrum, in the 2002 presidential race, and she had amazingfrankly, flabbergastingaccess. Arriving at Janes house, she explains she has quit smoking and drinking and has focused on pottery. Available from various digital retailers including Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play, Apple, Vudu and others. 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. 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. 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. "- Castillo: This llama will lead us toward prosperity. for language including some sexual references. 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). Although she was once a wunderkind of the political strategy community, she lost her last four campaigns, the speculation that being the reason she dropped out of sight. Let me know how that goes. Jane then joins the mass of people who are walking toward the city. Another graphic shows the race at 22% for Castillo and 26% for Rivera with 16 days to go. The villagers are angrily blocking the bus, and Castillo, against the wishes of Jane, gets off to talk with them. The pacing is lickety-split, the talk is boisterous, and the cast is all aces. Principal photography began on September 29, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Castillo is frustrated and wants to hear what Jane has planned for the campaign. Jane is on the set but is only seen in the background on a lounge chair, still looking unwell. 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. There is something deeply disturbing about American political strategists helping an unpopular politician return back to presidency in a country as different as Bolivia. Not seeing what she highlighted, Candy asks about it. Jane next starts a rumor that Rivera is a Nazi, based on no real facts, but a fuzzy picture showing him with Nazi propaganda. 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. Castillo had been coached by Jane that if he senses any emotion or tears, to look directly into the camera. 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? Since 2006, Bolivia has been governed by Evo Morales, the indigenous leader whose protest movement led to Gonis downfall. When Jane realizes how much she hurt the country, shes so upset that she actually quits her business and joins the protesters. 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 then offers money to the driver to overtake the Rivera bus. She then asks who knows English and only a handful of people raise their hands, so LeBlanc must translate. They make a sling shot out of clothes and shoot something that splatters against Candys window across the foyer. He is currently 28 points behind. (R. 107 minutes.) Jane highlights something in the book. His loyalty comes mostly from the fact that Castillo, who was president at the time, took a young Eduardo on his arm during a rally in his town. That's true even in "Our Brand Is Crisis," a . Like before, it came from La Paz Grassroots, but this time it really did come from Candy. 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. 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. [5] On September 11, Scoot McNairy was added to the cast. 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. There are dozens of pottery jars and bowls covering the walls. 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. Theres no redemption to be found with the people who are ruining liveswho have no belief in politicians or voters; people who have basically given up on humanity and play with public policy like a kid with a loaded gun. Both Bullock and Thornton portray Carvillesque characters (and the bald Thornton looks the part). Its nun versus AI in Damon Lindelofs new series. David Gordon Green keeps the perspectives shifting, getting lots of good angles on this three-ring circus. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google They talk about the book and Mephistopheles, with whom Faust makes a wager for his soul. "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,. Our Brand Is Crisis also has deeper themes that punctuate the human cost of winning and what it takes to do just that. [8] On September 24, Ann Dowd joined the film. NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Jason. Goni was in effect the candidate of the Washington consensus, the guy who would bring a small, fractious and deeply divided country into the established international economic order. And even hes not even that close. 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. Mick LaSalle is the film critic for the San . 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. Thankfully, were usually too wrapped up in Bullocks great performance to mind the films cognitive dissonance. During the debate, Nell observes how charming Rivera is, while the team watches stage left. Back at the hotel room, Jane is with Eddie and his brothers, ordering room service and still drunk. 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. The emotional investment Green wants to make in Jane feels misplaced, especially since he also wants to celebrate moments when she behaves abhorrently. Montage of the press reporting throughout the day. Ben jumps out and yells, get in the car, what are you doing? Privacy Policy and 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? We get on Janes adrenaline kick when she wins, but the movie rarely questions the deeper ramifications of her actions. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. But the main mystery to me was the message of this film. All rights reserved. Facing a general strike and a series of confrontations between soldiers and protesters that left at least 67 civilians dead, Goni imposed martial law in October 2003, and the U.S. State Department issued a statement offering its full support. I found the film to be very interesting, and all the cast put on some of their best performances Ive seen. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. Illustration by Hudson Christie. Bodine and her crew join Candy on the way to the airport. Smoke too much? (The daughter killed herself as a result.). That remains a question shrouded in mystery, but we could probably come up with some decent guesses. It might be possible to make a good movie out of a cross between Mike Nichols Primary Colors and Costa-Gavras Z, but Our Brand Is Crisis, directed by David Gordon Green in a seeming attempt to do something along those lines, is not that movie. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. 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. Investment Green wants to make in Jane feels misplaced, especially since he also wants to make in Jane misplaced... 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