A Spanish Michael Jackson impersonator meets an American Marilyn Monroe mimic in Paris, and learns something about being himself. Who would have imagined that Harmony Korine, who wrote the scandalous KIDS and made GUMMO and JULIEN DONKEY-BOY, could come up with something so insufferably twee?
The jet black hair, high-water pants, white socks, black loafers, kicking, popping and crotch-grabbing may look familiar, but this isn't Michael Jackson. This is "Michael Jackson" (Diego Luna), the impersonator trying to scrape together a living in Paris by performing on the streets and taking the odd gig his manager, Renard (French director Leos Carax), sets up at an...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
112 mins