[11] More casting was also announced, which included Reynaldo Pacheco, Dominic Flores, Louis Arcella, and Octavio Gmez. Negative ads are now running for Castillos campaign. 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. She looks across the large foyer to see Candy sitting outside his room. Their main tactic is to emphasize the many problems of the economy and present . Candy calls Jane and invites her to go out again. : What The Hell Happened? See list of Relevant Issuesquestions-and-answers. LeBlanc finds even more dirt on Rivera, but Jane tells her to focus everything on finding dirt on Castillo. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. They make big promises that mean jack shit. Getting hurt is unavoidable, she tells him. 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). Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. It's a game that has a real impact on people's lives, but a game nonetheless. Well, that would be you and me both before and after. Director David Gordon Green Writers Rachel Boynton (suggested by the documentary) Peter Straughan (screenplay) Stars Sandra Bullock What are you going to do? and then leaves. That's true even in "Our Brand Is Crisis," a . Whats ultimately most frustrating is the evidence that the makers of this movie were fully capable of creating something as smart and ruthless as its lead character. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. 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. The corporations whined and complained, but ultimately decided that 18 percent was a lot better than nothing. On a campaign bus heading toward a remote Bolivia location on a small dirt road, they discover Riveras bus is directly ahead of them. During the final debate, Bodine cites a quote in a conversation with Candy (knowing that he'll give it to rival candidate Rivera for his speech) saying that "a great man" said it. 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? OUR BRAND IS CRISIS NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Jason The film starts with Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) being interviewed. Jane wants to overtake it. Let me know how that goes. Jane then joins the mass of people who are walking toward the city. Meanwhile, the senior advisors (Ben, Nell and others) talk about Jane and Candy, how they had sex previously, and how she spread a rumor during a campaign that Candys candidates daughter was on drugs. [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". This was the lowest wide release opening of Bullock's career, beating 1996's Two If by Sea ($4.7 million). Their main tactic is to emphasize the many problems of the economy and present Castillo as the solution. She spends the night in jail. At a large debate with all the candidates, Jane is found behind the stage backdrop during the debate. 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. Throughout almost all of the film, Jane and her team use dirty manipulation to campaign for Castillo. The message I got from this movie was very positive. She is then seen in the middle of the protest, and sees Eddie. And Im not talking about content issues, like language or nudity, Im talking about the message the movie preaches at the audience. In the mix is a fine supporting cast including a sensational Thornton . [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. Ideology? 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. (The daughter killed herself as a result.). Jane is on the set but is only seen in the background on a lounge chair, still looking unwell. Its nun versus AI in Damon Lindelofs new series. George Clooney and Grant Heslov produced. 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. They reluctantly agree, but the city is in gridlock due to the protests, which are on the verge of becoming riots. The protagonist, Jane Bodine a.k.a. I can barely imagine the humiliation! 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. 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. [3] The film opened on October 30, 2015, alongside Burnt and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. At an evening event, Castillo is shaking hands with people behind a barrier. He is a crook. Castillo promises the people that will happen if hes elected. What makes the campaign more personal for her is that Pat Candy is working for Rivera--their professional and personal history goes all the way back to her first-ever political campaign. 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. She quotes, It may be alright to have a power that is based on guns. This is yet another film that could have been PG (maybe PG-13 due to a mooning scene) with a cleaner script. Right before the debate with the 3 leading candidates, Jane is sitting alone in the lecture hall, reading Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and is soon joined by Candy. On a scale of laminated-eyebrow drama to Lemon Lady Secrets. Eddie and his brothers join the protests and are shouting angry chants. Shes convinced to step up when she discovers the front-runner has hired consultant Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), her arch-nemesis. They plead with him that any negotiations with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) be preceded by a referendum so the people can decide. Jane is goaded by patronizing men into proving herself in ways shes not proud of. Karen Kunawicz. Entertaining and provocative, Our Brand Is Crisis is a satirical political drama. Yes, this is a movie where a diabolical character is given the surname Candy, and what can you really say? Jane insists to the campaign team that this was set up by Candy. Later, two senior advisors argue the crisis brand may have worked with the current crowd, but it wont with the working class. Our Brand Is Crisis also has deeper themes that punctuate the human cost of winning and what it takes to do just that. The film starts with Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) being interviewed. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Principal photography began on September 29, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The website's critical consensus reads, "Our Brand Is Crisis offers sporadic amusement and benefits from a talented cast, but ultimately lacks enough of a bite to add much of interest to the political satire genre. The women of, Sam Levinson and the Weeknd Allegedly Turned, Theres No Red Button You Can Push to Stop. Some said it was insightful. 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. 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. Sometimes its both, as in Kathy Bates sharp-tongued, soft-hearted adviser in Primary Colors. Our Brand is Crisis was released across all major streaming and cable platforms on Tuesday, January 19, 2016. The story follows a political strategist who's recruited to help the campaign of a Bolivian presidential. A bus race ensues around dangerous bends and cliffs. The pottery business is explained forthwith, lest were worried about some Ghost influence. In case the true story behind the baffling and approximately well-intentioned Sandra Bullock star vehicle Our Brand Is Crisis makes any difference, here it is: Way back in the innocent days of 2002 (Im kidding about innocent), the high-powered political consulting firm Greenberg Carville Shrum parachuted into Bolivia to take up the cause of a struggling presidential candidate named Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada, universally known as Goni. Rachel Boynton, a documentary director whose work focuses on ideology, politics and power (her most recent movie, Big Men, is about the global workings of the oil industry), came along and made an extraordinary film about that campaign, whose title was drawn from a telling phrase coined by one of the GCS consultants. Rivera then repeats the quote Jane told Candy. 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. Um, yes. Inspired by the 2005 documentary of the . We root for Jane to win and feel guilty for caring more about the game than the country. Our Brand is Crisis is more than just the scenario Jane (Sandra Bullock) is selling to the Bolivian public in hopes of bringing her candidate Castillo from a blip on the radar to leading the. From that day on, she says, our brand is crisis.. Still offensive? Beyond needing to adjust to her relocation to La Paz however temporary, Jane knows that she has to transform the thinking of the populace to making them want Castillo as their leader as opposed to changing Castillo to something he inherently is not. Arriving at Janes house, she explains she has quit smoking and drinking and has focused on pottery. , No amount of political manoeuvring can fix this film [1/4], An uneven mix of cynical satire and breezy comedy. In the city, Eddie is hanging Castillo posters. (A heavy back story is subsequently revealed, followed by an ever heavier back story to the back story.) 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. Comedy Drama 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. The interviewer says she's been known by many names, most notably "Calamity Jane". She really truly does.). The premise doesn't really show up until the end of the movie. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. The crisis, when it came . This is the meaning of the title. [13] On December 11, 2013, Sandra Bullock was in early talks to star in the film, while Clooney chose not to direct, and his starring in the film was also unconfirmed at that time. 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. 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. The interviewer says shes been known by many names, most notably Calamity Jane. Afterwards, Jane sends 3 Bolivian singers to show up at Candys door. Thanks for reading the spoiler. She finally just decided to get off the carousel. I think you pull it, Joshua Jackson says to Lizzy Caplan sensually. Jane invites them out to dinner with the campaign team. 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? Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack. From there, Jane uses every trick at her disposal to try and beat Candy. She doesnt think the man should change to fit the narrative but instead the narrative should change to fit the man. But Boynton has done her own framing: This campaign is a precursor to tragedy. 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. 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. . Another graphic shows the race at 22% for Castillo and 26% for Rivera with 16 days to go. 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. Her words are intercut with footage of newspaper headlines and, oddly, shots of Bullocks hands molding clay at a pottery wheel. Our Brand is Crisis hits a lot of clunky notes and the end is unforgivably cornball, but its still one of the liveliest political black comedies Ive seen in a while. Ben meets her in the hallway and she immediately says hes not a winner, and he cannot win. Jane says it will be an honor. She offers to reluctantly resign, but Castillo keeps her on. Um, yes. 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). I love stories of politics as theaterthe stagecraft, scripting, wardrobe choices, and focus group testing of absurd commercials. An young actress expresses concern with her part in the ad, which requires her to be caught by Castillo. Candy can be seen watching the action in the background. After he does this, Castillo gives Eddie his cufflinks to hold, and it is clear Eddie idolizes him. All this makes for mid-grade entertainment value, at best. And sometimesin fact, I daresay oftenyou know about a half hour into a film that youre going to have to censure it. There are dozens of pottery jars and bowls covering the walls. 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. 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. Besser. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. 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. In a Netflix comedy by Katharine McPhees stepdaughter. Comedy-Drama. Our Brand Is Crisis is a sharp political comedy ostensibly based on Bolivia's 2002 presidential election. Someone smashes an egg on Castillo, who spectacularly punches the assailant. After this incident, however, Castillo shows the other side of him by being kind to protesters who throw rocks at his bus. Among the many achievements of HBOs Veep is its discovery of a new, post-Carville political consultant character, one thats just as cuttingly entertaining but truer to reality. 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. But the fact that it wants to also squeeze in a redemptive tale. Goni fled the country five days later, and now lives in exile in the U.S., which has refused to extradite him to Bolivia to face trial for extrajudicial killings and other crimes against humanity. "Our Brand Is Crisis" is a fictionalized treatment of the 2005 documentary of the same name, which focused on Bill Clinton's former campaign manager James Carville. 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. - Jane: It's like he killed himself rather than appear in our commercial.". Since The War Room, the omnipotent, omniscient celebrity political consultant has been portrayed again and again. 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. 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? A screenshot shows Castillo at 8% with Rivera leading with 36%. [8] On September 24, Ann Dowd joined the film. Policy doesnt even enter into the conversation; its more about scoring points by making your opponent look like a Nazi sympathizer simply by virtue of a doctored photograph. He denies being a member of the cult. When it does, Jane moons the Rivera bus. The pacing is lickety-split, the talk is boisterous, and the cast is all aces. 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. Although Castillos populist opponent doesnt seem to have much integrity (the character does in the documentary), we still know that Castillo has less, that hes a dreadful man. Bodine had fled the consulting scene for years after an eruption of conscience that pushed her to mental breakdown, sobriety, and pottery. 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. Politics takes to cynicism like shit to a cesspool. Then Jane figures out a hook: To make Castillo more attractive than the frontrunner (a young, engaged populist who represents hope and change), she has to sell the idea that the country doesnt need someone, well, likable. Covering Rammsteins Du Hast in Berlin. But the main mystery to me was the message of this film. Ben says, ok. [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. So those questions remain in the dim and dusty background, behind the quasi-hilarious dirty tricks, the long nights of booze, the almost-condescending interactions with indigenous Bolivians and the rivalrous relationship tinged with both tragedy and Eros between Jane and Thorntons Mephistophelean (and distinctly Carville-like) Pat Candy. Our Brand Is Crisis is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Peter Straughan, based on the 2005 documentary film of the same name by Rachel Boynton. In a restaurant, Jane sits alone until Candy sits next to her. Nevertheless, theres not much reason for you to take my word over theirs. Los Angeles County said all litigation over the crash has now been resolved. When Bullocks passionately advocating goes negative, or Thorntons smirkingly plays Mephistopheles to her from across their hotel balconytheyre close enough to speak to each other directly, but insist on staying on their cell phonesthe movie builds up an infectious energy. While Rivera is still speaking aboard a train, Jane poses as a worker for the Rivera campaign and tells the conductor the speech is over. The news that Jane will be pitted against political consultant Pat Candy, with whom she has a past, is enough to get her away from the wheel. Eddie is delivering a framed photograph to now President-Elect Castillos Senate offices. for language including some sexual references. Nevertheless, his brothers are much more skeptical about Castillo. However it is better and more gratifying to win the heart of a nation and keep it. Candy gives her a condescending compliment and tells her he plans to pleasure himself thinking about her when he returns home. Honestly, I didnt know what to expect, on a number of levels. Maybe, kinda. Although I hasten to add that even by the standards of Bullocks implacable, steel-jawed underacting this is a dull performance. Even worse, it turns out to be a humanist, socialist, anti-capitalist message about "the people" rising up to establish some sort of vague communist brotherhood centered . In its opening weekend, it was projected to make $57 million from 2,202 theaters,[23] however only ended up grossing $3.2 million, finishing eighth at the box office. Its very obvious when shes going to do it, so it would be easy for viewers to close their eyes until all the yelling and laughter dies down. She showed how American marketing techniques never before used in that region steered a desperate country towards a rich, arrogant former president Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada (Goni), who proved catastrophically out of touch. Castillo and the campaign team are on the outdoor set of a commercial for the Senator. Washed-up political strategist Jane Bodine is hired by a political consultancy to help their client, Senator Castillo, win the Bolivian general election. It is revealed that she retired after violating election laws. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. Montage of the press reporting throughout the day. When people say its a communist movie, I think they are hugely misunderstanding the movies point. By what name was Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) officially released in India in English? 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. After a traumatizing career as a political campaign consultant, Bodine has retired to the snowy mountains, where she doesnt smoke and makes bowls. Another screenshot shows Castillo has 10% to Riveras 39% with 80 days until election day. 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. 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. The campaign advisors are telling Castillo he needs to meet with the people and be seen as one of the people. Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. 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. There is only one wrong thing to do, she says: Losing. During a focus group for the ad in which he catches and holds up several people, its clear the ad does not resonate with anybody. Some of her pranks, specifically one ploy to feed her candidates unsuspecting competitor a Nazi quotation during the campaigns final debate, are good for a laugh. In her eyes, her job is done. "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. Castillo wins the vote by a small margin. The opposition's top political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy. 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. More fliers are discovered that claim (with pictures) Castillo is a member of a crazy white-robe wearing cult. Castillo had been coached by Jane that if he senses any emotion or tears, to look directly into the camera. The campaign believes Castillo should apologize as soon as possible but Jane disagrees. [17][18] Filming also took place in the Bonnet Carr Spillway in Norco in St. Charles Parish. We know this stuff happens, but its still clarifying to see the curtains pulled back. All contents 2023 The Slate Group LLC. An SUV carrying the Castillo advisors sees him and stop to give him a ride home, insisted upon by Jane. We get on Janes adrenaline kick when she wins, but the movie rarely questions the deeper ramifications of her actions. 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. But at the end, their methods are exposed to the viewers as evil. Its pretty powerful, actually. He wants to find triumph in a tale that should be satiric at best and depressing at worst. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Its only when the camera is on top of him that we see the pool of blood. Jane says its time to go negative. February 27, 2023. Realizing that her candidate, Senator Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida) cant win by being likable, they decide to use fear as their issue, sell that Bolivia is a nation in crisis, and hes the only many that can save it. The political comedy Our Brand Is Crisis stars Sandra Bullock as an American campaign strategist hired to work for a Bolivian presidential candidate. 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. [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. Jane also has to get Castillo to be totally transparent to her to uncover those skeletons that she might need to deal with, being transparent which he may not be willing to be, not realizing that her own skeletons might pop out to play. 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