Actor-turned-filmmaker Vincent Gallo's strange second feature isn't the first movie to cause a near-riot among the cineasts at Cannes: Antonioni's L'AVVENTURA (1960), Reinhard Hauff's STAMMHEIM (1986) and David Cronenberg's CRASH (1996) come immediately to mind. Few, however, managed to generate such vituperative word of mouth. So it actually comes as something of a disappointment to find that the film is not worse than Roger Ebert's colonoscopy, as the critic claimed in a post-Cannes dustup with Gallo, but that it's actually quite interesting, albeit in a supremely self-conscious and artsy-fartsy way. The film chronicles the cross-country road trip taken by Bud Clay...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
92 mins