The film follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Luna), who meets a Marilyn
lookalike (Morton) in Paris. She takes him under her wing and brings him to a
community in Scotland, peopled by lookalikes and ruled by the Pope (Fox)
and Queen Elizabeth II (Anita Pallenberg, appearing with Fox for the first
time since Performance). In a sub-plot, a German priest (Herzog, a fan of
Korine’s work) is overseeing relief deliveries in third world conditions, when a
nun falls from an airborne plane and miraculously survives…

Mister Lonely, starring Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien), Samantha
Morton (Control, Morvern Callar), James Fox (Performance) and legendary
director Werner Herzog.

The film follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Luna), who meets a Marilyn
lookalike (Morton) in Paris. She takes him under her wing and brings him to a
community in Scotland, peopled by lookalikes and ruled by the Pope (Fox)
and Queen Elizabeth II (Anita Pallenberg, appearing with Fox for the first
time since Performance). In a sub-plot, a German priest (Herzog, a fan of
Korine’s work) is overseeing relief deliveries in third world conditions, when a
nun falls from an airborne plane and miraculously survives…

With a cast of characters that includes Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe,
Charlie Chaplin, The Pope, The Queen and Madonna – albeit all of them
lookalikes – Mister Lonely is the kind of ambitious film that could only have
come from a visionary director such as Harmony Korine.

 

Mister LOnely DVD

 

See our previous film review of Mister Lonely and Interview with Denis Lavant