[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. It also sets up a Hollywood ending that all but wrecks the movie. Eddie and his brothers join the protests and are shouting angry chants. Its cute for a while. Jane tells him this is the way of politics, and its not her job to solve problems after the election. Loosely based on true events, "Our Brand Is Crisis," follows Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) and her campaign team when they are hired to help Pedro Castillo win a presidential election in Bolivia. Well, that would be you and me both before and after. Nevertheless, his brothers are much more skeptical about Castillo. (Vice) President Selina Meyers (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has a stable of advisers including Dan Egan (Reid Scott) and Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) who have internalized and aspire to the Carville cult; its just that reality interrupts to remind them that things dont work like that. 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. Our Brand Is Crisis Review: Champions of Cynicism | TIFF 2015. The insistent, intrusive music score by David Wingo doesnt help matters, and neither do the too-many subsequent montages, all of which are of the always mistaken We Need A Montage variety. Available from various digital retailers including Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play, Apple, Vudu and others. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. This film isnt as dark as Burnt, and has more amusing moments, including some comic relief, but still shouldnt be classified as a comedy. After a traumatizing career as a political campaign consultant, Bodine has retired to the snowy mountains, where she doesnt smoke and makes bowls. Meanwhile, Thornton employs his well-honed smiling/sneering shtick to nicely nasty effect. The Weeknd responded to a Rolling Stone story claiming the show is a rape fantasy with a clip of his character calling the mag irrelevant. She doesnt believe hell catch her and he expresses disbelief. She is unable to breath and is using an oxygen mask on the car ride to campaign headquarters. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack. He tells a story about a campaign run by Adlai Stevenson in which Stevenson is told everything thinking person would vote for him, to which Stevenson replies that is not enough. 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. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google She then asks who knows English and only a handful of people raise their hands, so LeBlanc must translate. 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. It is revealed that she retired after violating election laws. Shes convinced to step up when she discovers the front-runner has hired consultant Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), her arch-nemesis. Castillo's bus is stopped by a group of protesters who don't want the International Monetary Fund in Bolivia. She meets the campaign team but stays in the background at the first meeting, clearly feeling ill. 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. In the following months, the team exercises a strategy of "declaring a crisis". Somebody on the Castillo bus says Jane has a great ass! (And she does. There just arent enough cigarettes or bottles of Scotch in the world to give any political consultant the power that we, in our fits of frustration, guiltily wish they had. All of them, except Bodine, have already taken jobs as political consultants in other countries. She is then seen in the middle of the protest, and sees Eddie. 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. 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. Violence: Moderate / Profanity: Heavy / Sex/Nudity: Moderate to heavys. They reluctantly agree, but the city is in gridlock due to the protests, which are on the verge of becoming riots. 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. . A senior advisor expresses dismay that she has been hired but all shes doing is sunning herself. A knock on the door reveals Eddie, saddened and angry, who tells her about the IMF plan. Since 2006, Bolivia has been governed by Evo Morales, the indigenous leader whose protest movement led to Gonis downfall. Despite Sandra Bullocks strong lead performance, David Gordon Greens film cant push a hopeful tone past its depressing reality. Goni was in effect the candidate of the Washington consensus, the guy who would bring a small, fractious and deeply divided country into the established international economic order. This is the meaning of the title. 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. She just needs to hear him deny it. [9] On October 10, Joaquim de Almeida and Zoe Kazan joined the cast, with Almeida playing Castillo, the former president of Bolivia, and Kazan playing a young woman who finds dirt on political candidates. If youve been following the drama in the House, the inability of most every Republican presidential candidate to lift off, or really any news from American politics over the last 10 or 239 years, you might have noticed that politics is difficult. The firm brings in "Calamity" Jane Bodine to manage Castillo's fledging campaign. Eduardo, a young volunteer of the Castillo campaign, is deeply impressed by this show of commitment. 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. 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. You never find out. He is currently 28 points behind. Billy Bob Thornton employs his well-honed sneering shtick and Sandra Bullock makes the role her own in Our Brand Is Crisis. The boys (all adult age) are living alone because their parents have both died. Critic Kenneth Turan has this review. Janes sidekicksplayed by Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd, Scoot McNairy, and Zoe Kazancant make a dent in Castillos mixture of machismo, cluelessness, and the kind of self-serving patriarchal worldview that regards Bolivias indigenous population as a bunch of children who dont know whats good for them. 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. 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. The emotional investment Green wants to make in Jane feels misplaced, especially since he also wants to celebrate moments when she behaves abhorrently. The study of crisis management originated with large-scale industrial and environmental disasters in the 1980s. Back at Janes hotel, Ben calls and informs her there will be a protest downtown. A young man working on the campaign, Eduardo (Reynaldo Pacheco) comes to the rescue of Castillo and ushers him away. They just decided to be ingratiating and sentimental. From that day on, she says, our brand is crisis.. A screenshot shows Castillo at 8% with Rivera leading with 36%. "Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders. Have they learned nothing? That was almost certainly the final straw. Inspired by the 2005 documentary of the . Our Brand is Crisis was one of these pleasant surprises. 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. Calamity Jane Bodine (Bullock) was a vaunted political strategist, but the emotional toll of the campaigns coupled with substance abuse problems forced her into early retirement where she may not be happy, but shes grateful that shes calm. I think you pull it, Joshua Jackson says to Lizzy Caplan sensually. 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. [3], The film opened on October 30, 2015, alongside Burnt and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. It might be possible to make a good movie out of a cross between Mike Nichols Primary Colors and Costa-Gavras Z, but Our Brand Is Crisis, directed by David Gordon Green in a seeming attempt to do something along those lines, is not that movie. Jane is talking with Nell, and insults her about her dedication to the campaign. 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. Maybe its time to put it out to pasture. Candy goes on to tell Jane, If you fight with monsters too long, you become a monster. Jane later says that shell kill herself if she loses to Candy again (though this appears to be hyperbole) She has lost every election against him. There are very occasional crude sexual references. That kind of consumer response is pretty remarkable, and it also says something about each brand's crisis management strategies. At a Rivera campaign stop, Jane is seen talking to Candy. For those who want more detail, I have written a paragraph below containing spoilers. The R-rating is because of the language. Her words are intercut with footage of newspaper headlines and, oddly, shots of Bullocks hands molding clay at a pottery wheel. A man in a mask jumps the barrier and smashes an egg on Castillos forehead. 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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. There are also two middle finger displays. Jane invites them out to dinner with the campaign team. She gives him a bottle of Paul Newman Steak Sauce. The rest of the movie is her telling the story of what happened after her resignation. We root for Jane to win and feel guilty for caring more about the game than the country. (A heavy back story is subsequently revealed, followed by an ever heavier back story to the back story.) Director David Gordon Green Writers Rachel Boynton (suggested by the documentary) Peter Straughan (screenplay) Stars Sandra Bullock Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) Rated R for language including some sexual references. Afterwards, Jane sends 3 Bolivian singers to show up at Candys door. The interviewer says she's been known by many names, most notably "Calamity Jane". The 2005 Our Brand Is Crisis was the second documentary about Carvilles political work, following 1993s The War Room, in addition to Carvilles dramatic acting rsumand cable news career. Jane says its time to go negative. Castillo promises the people that will happen if hes elected. Hollywood loves it some Ragin Cajun, because hes the closest real-life approximation to the magical political consultant of its dreams. The pottery business is explained forthwith, lest were worried about some Ghost influence. Around the edges of this story about Bullocks character, an especially ruthless consultant known as Calamity Jane, there are a few intriguing hints of other stories about the international financial system, the power of fear in politics and the American understanding of what democracy means when applied to other people in other countries. 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. The filmmakers and their stars have fun with the idea that politics is sex for those who want to keep their clothes on. South Africa - DM Listen, 18 Dec Ramaphosa's Renew22 team decides to back Mabuyane over Lamola - When the Renew22 caucus met on Day 3 of the ANC's National Elective Conference, at least 2,400 delegates agreed to support Cyril Ramaphosa's bid for a second term as party president, with Oscar Mabuyane as his second in command. 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. [2/4], The effort by Our Brand Is Crisis director David Gordon Green and writer Peter Straughan to turn the 2005 documentary of the same name into a light comedy with touches of romance and political hijinks leave the fictional version a poor candidate in the box office race. There's only one wrong in this, only one, and that is losing!". Jane insists to the campaign team that this was set up by Candy. In 2002, Bolivian politician Pedro Castillo hires an American political consulting firm (based on James Carville's Greenberg Carville Shrum firm) to help him win the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. When she starts giving it back to himpsyching him outthe movie gets really good. Thats why Hollywood had to invent a character with such powers: the knowing, salty political consultant. for language including some sexual references. At a large debate with all the candidates, Jane is found behind the stage backdrop during the debate. Candy is outside the hotel in his chauffeur-driven SUV and offers Jane, Ben, and Nell a ride to the airport. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. Another screenshot shows Castillo has 10% to Riveras 39% with 80 days until election day. Throughout almost all of the film, Jane and her team use dirty manipulation to campaign for Castillo. All the stupid tricks are here, the ones people laugh at onscreen in the context of a film like this but fall for in spite of themselves on their TVs during football games. 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 . Our Brand is Crisis may be director David Gordon Green's most sterile picture yet, but it's redeemed somewhat by Sandra Bullock's lead performance, as well as a talented ensemble cast . Illustration by Hudson Christie. I need a majority. However, Castillo refuses to give permission for the team to do so. More fliers are discovered that claim (with pictures) Castillo is a member of a crazy white-robe wearing cult. Washed-up political strategist Jane Bodine is hired by a political consultancy to help their client, Senator Castillo, win the Bolivian general election. There is only one wrong thing to do, she says: Losing. But the fact that it wants to also squeeze in a redemptive tale. Our Brand Is Crisis is a sharp political comedy ostensibly based on Bolivia's 2002 presidential election. A timeline of the (alleged) drama involving Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles, and Florence Pugh. From there, Jane uses every trick at her disposal to try and beat Candy. Finally, she meets with Castillo for their first conversation. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. This was the lowest wide release opening of Bullock's career, beating 1996's Two If by Sea ($4.7 million). 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. She doesnt respond. Before long the SUV comes to a stop in the heavy traffic on the tiny streets. A lethally effective charm delivery system, Sandra Bullock doesn't need to do much to win you over. 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. Montage of the press reporting throughout the day. It is revealed that she retired after violating election laws. Cut back to the interview that opened the film. A montage shows the crisis message is working and support for Castillo is growing. Candy calls Jane and invites her to go out again. Before I address the message, Ill review the content. Castillo is frustrated and wants to hear what Jane has planned for the campaign. Jane has accepted the offer and their plane lands in La Paz, Bolivia, which has an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. Their main tactic is to emphasize the many problems of the economy and present Castillo as the solution. While Castillo is meeting with the press, Jane meets Eduardo. But if you can be wary of those things, I do recommend this film. The 2005 Our Brand Is Crisis was the second documentary about Carville's political work, following 1993's The War Room, in addition to Carville's dramatic acting rsum and cable news career.. 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). 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 tells Castillo and the campaign that this is no longer an election, it is a crisis. She spends the night in jail. Ben jumps out and yells, get in the car, what are you doing? Candy reveals it was him (via a friend of a friend) who anonymously suggested to the Castillo campaign to hire Jane. Comedy-Drama. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. Nevertheless, theres not much reason for you to take my word over theirs. Fliers are discovered, authored by the La Paz Grassroots that say Castillo had a three year affair. Please share it with your friends rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); Later Castillo is heard instructing interest rates to be raised to 15%. 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. 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. But at the end, their methods are exposed to the viewers as evil. On April 22, 2007, it was announced that George Clooney would produce a dramatization of the 2005 documentary Our Brand Is Crisis, along with Grant Heslov, and Warner Bros. would handle American distribution rights. A graphic shows with 24 days left until the election, Castillo has 19% and Rivera has 30%. Janes conversion, alas, is over-broad and signaled from the start. Power? The interviewer talks about his son. Starring Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton. Since 2013, the study of English and history has dropped by a third; the number of STEM degrees, meanwhile, is soaring. The movie opens with a title sequence regarding the main character Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) and her rise and fall from hotshot political strategist/image . Still offensive? Castillo has won the election. She introduces LeBlanc (Zoe Kazan), a young investigator who is hired to dig up dirt on Rivera. 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 will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. I can barely imagine the humiliation! She looks across the large foyer to see Candy sitting outside his room. Carville and Greenberg won that election for Goni, after shifting the entire theme of his campaign to the crisis mantra, but maybe they should have vetted their candidate a little better. Maybe, kinda. In Bolivia, the situation is tense: Bodine learns that the indigenous people, who are a majority in the country but lack any real political power, are protesting for constitutional reform to get proper representation. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Scoot McNairy, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd and Joaquim de Almeida. [6] On September 15, Billy Bob Thornton joined the film,[7] and on September 18, Anthony Mackie joined the cast. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. Did Cirie go too far by bringing family matters into the game? [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. By what name was Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) officially released in India in English? Jane wants to overtake it. [24], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 35% based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. Played for laughs? Who was really paying for their work with Goni, an unpopular former president who had spent much of his life in the United States and spoke Spanish so poorly that Bolivian opponents derided him as El Gringo? 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. Maybe Carville and the Clintonocracy were empowering democracy after all, even if it wasnt quite the variety they intended. As president in the mid-90s, he had pursued a controversial two-level strategy, extending constitutional rights and policy reforms aimed at Bolivias large indigenous population while also embarking on a widespread campaign of privatization that sold off state-owned industries and natural resources to foreign capital. Our Brand Is Crisis. 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. Jane is so nauseous from her travel and the elevation she leaves and is heard throwing up. Now, the film is so heavily fictionalized that it's much more an emotive or thematic . In a restaurant, Jane sits alone until Candy sits next to her. Jane gets a call from Pat who tells her to turn on the TV. [26] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale. [2/4], Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, would be perfect humanist, socialist, anti-capitalist propaganda except its a bit disjointed Abhorrent at least 61 obscenities rear female nudity when woman on bus moons other bus, crass, grimy and not sure of its own message burdens itself with foul language and sexual allusions, spoiling some pretty great performances from Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton. Jane is goaded by patronizing men into proving herself in ways shes not proud of. When it does, Jane moons the Rivera bus. Arriving at Janes house, she explains she has quit smoking and drinking and has focused on pottery. Sometimes its melodramaticthink the sinister Ryan Gosling and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Ides of March, or most notably, Kevin Spaceys snaky Frank Underwood, the master strategist and politician bundled into one on House of Cards. The crisis, when it came . This satire, directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay by Peter Straughan, suffers from deficits of wit, wisdom, focus, filmmaking expertise and appropriate tone. 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. On a campaign bus heading toward a remote Bolivia location on a small dirt road, they discover Riveras bus is directly ahead of them. The film starts with Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) being interviewed. He is a crook. Jane is elated and tells the communication team to talk to the press and inform them Rivera just used a quote from Joseph Goebbels, the head Nazi propaganda minister. Lets Do the Thing: How Online Were You in February 2023? Jane is on the set but is only seen in the background on a lounge chair, still looking unwell. 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. Covering Rammsteins Du Hast in Berlin. What part should morality play in politics? There is something deeply disturbing about American political strategists helping an unpopular politician return back to presidency in a country as different as Bolivia. Jane yells out the window to Candy that Rivera has dropped 6 points. Besser. I say, beat Candy because Jane doesnt really care that much about Castillo or Bolivia. Though not without its entertaining momentsthe cast, led by Sandra Bullock, is energetic, sharp and gets a fair number of juicy bits to rock out with. 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. 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