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The Brown Bunny

2004

Vincent Gallo

Vincent Gallo, Chloë Sevigny, Elizabeth Blake, Cheryl Tiegs ...

5.6

2,527

Drama The Brown Bunny is a love story. It's the story of one man's tragic loss of the love of his life. He is Bud Clay. And he races motorcycles. He rides in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. Round and round he goes, repeating laps over and over until the race is over. The story begins with Bud racing in New Hampshire. Bud's next race is in California in five days. And so his journey begins across America. And every day Bud is ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It is said that editing is the soul of the cinema; in the case of 'The Brown Bunny,' it is its salvation (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Edelstein Slate	"The Brown Bunny has been described as “meditative,” but it must be the critics who are doing the meditating: For most of the running time, Gallo just turns on the camera and trances out."	NEG
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A very watchable, often beautiful-looking attempt by Mr. Gallo to reproduce the kind of loosely structured mood pieces that found American and select foreign-language cinemas of the 1960"	NEU
United States	Nick Schager Slant	"Gallo’s film is so pathologically self-conscious and pretentious that it would be hysterical if not for its exasperating tediousness."	NEG
United Kingdom	Damon Wise Empire	"Although controversy surrounds the sexually explicit finale, the early scenes are the film’s real triumph (...) Vastly underrated (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"If the independent film world were littered with alleged disasters like The Brown Bunny, the scene would be far richer for it."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A study of masculine masochism and guilt writ not just large but very very long - and, regrettably, it's as shallow as a salt lake."	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"[It] has the rarefied air of a sophomore indulgence, yet Gallo’s talent is there in every frame"	NEU

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