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. 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? 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. Eventually Eddie sees her and they make eye contact. A montage shows the crisis message is working and support for Castillo is growing. She introduces LeBlanc (Zoe Kazan), a young investigator who is hired to dig up dirt on Rivera. Candy is outside the hotel in his chauffeur-driven SUV and offers Jane, Ben, and Nell a ride to the airport. Well, that would be you and me both before and after. In a Netflix comedy by Katharine McPhees stepdaughter. Its only when the camera is on top of him that we see the pool of blood. 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. Her words are intercut with footage of newspaper headlines and, oddly, shots of Bullocks hands molding clay at a pottery wheel. Jane meets with Castillo who says shes a liability. When people say its a communist movie, I think they are hugely misunderstanding the movies point. Jane wakes up in her hotel room. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack. January 14, 2016. In 2002, Bolivian politician Pedro Gallo hires American James Carville's political consulting firm, Greenberg Carville Shrum, to help him win the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. But as a whole, "Our Brand is Crisis" is a messy affair that sputters along when it should be humming with assured cynical momentum. [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". She cares about winning, and the movie reinforces the narrative that politics is just a game. Played for laughs? She opens with footage of an anti-government riot that came less than a year after the election. Director David Gordon Green Writers Rachel Boynton (suggested by the documentary) Peter Straughan (screenplay) Stars Sandra Bullock At a large debate with all the candidates, Jane is found behind the stage backdrop during the debate. Maybe, kinda. The film is directed by David. 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. The next scene shows the state department giving an anti-cocaine speech, which will help Volasco. Answer, Does HIGH MORAL CHARACTER matter in political leaders? Jane says its time to go negative. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. You never find out. So I knew that, in this case, I would just have to find out for myself. By the way, the bus driver is paid to drive like a complete moron to do it. A man in a mask jumps the barrier and smashes an egg on Castillos forehead. He wants to find triumph in a tale that should be satiric at best and depressing at worst. 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. Meanwhile, Thornton employs his well-honed smiling/sneering shtick to nicely nasty effect. Although the movie has flashes where everything comes together and we can revel in dark victories, more often than not, star Sandra Bullock is left to carry the crushing emotional and thematic weight of a confused picture that acknowledges that politics is a cheap joke, and then expects us all to laugh. 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. Mick LaSalle is the film critic for the San . Not seeing what she highlighted, Candy asks about it. Comedy-Drama. When they get home, his brothers ridicule Eddie for bringing Yankees and trusting them, and for that matter, trusting Castillo. As a result of this, Castillo agrees to start running a negative campaign. She doesnt think the man should change to fit the narrative but instead the narrative should change to fit the man. I love stories of politics as theaterthe stagecraft, scripting, wardrobe choices, and focus group testing of absurd commercials. 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. Now, the film is so heavily fictionalized that it's much more an emotive or thematic . OUR BRAND IS CRISIS barely holds together as the story moves from campaign incident to campaign incident. Thankfully, were usually too wrapped up in Bullocks great performance to mind the films cognitive dissonance. His slickness fits the milieu. The deeply disappointed Eduardo visits Bodine in her hotel; Bodine replies that she is not responsible for Castillo's actions. 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 bus race ensues around dangerous bends and cliffs. Jane says its just a carousel and she was going around and around. Castillo wins the vote by a small margin. 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. Ben admires a shiny dark bowl but Nell takes it from him. He cant reconcile that her success also makes her a bad person. I need a majority. Yet you really have to read between the lines and dig into the subtext of Straughans screenplay to perceive the issues that drove Boyntons film. document.write(ts+'script src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad12539a.cgi/v=2.3S/sz=728x90A|970x66A/'+rnum+'/'+nf+'RETURN-CODE/JS/">'+ts+'/script>'); You can send in your spoiler to other movies by going here. He is currently 28 points behind. The train begins to leave and Candy is furious. And even hes not even that close. Once a political idealist, she increasingly was a strategist for hire outwardly not caring about the actual politics of her boss. 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 . Eduardo, a young volunteer of the Castillo campaign, is deeply impressed by this show of commitment. Janes cynicismshe regards herself, the candidate, and everyone else as a pawnis so over-the-top that it threatens to derail Our Brand is Crisis: Who cares about the election if she doesnt? Before a campaign stop, Jane tells Eddie to help Castillo roll up his sleeves. Sometimes its both, as in Kathy Bates sharp-tongued, soft-hearted adviser in Primary Colors. The pacing is lickety-split, the talk is boisterous, and the cast is all aces. 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. Castillo's bus is stopped by a group of protesters who don't want the International Monetary Fund in Bolivia. A senior advisor expresses dismay that she has been hired but all shes doing is sunning herself. Does he drink too much? [17][18] Filming also took place in the Bonnet Carr Spillway in Norco in St. Charles Parish. Sometimes the portrayal is satiricalRobert DeNiros spin doctor in Wag the Dog, the assassin-like Dylan McDermott in The Campaign, the sex-addicted Kathryn Hahn in televisions Parks and Recreation. Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant strategist, pulse reader and marketing mind. 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. 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. 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). 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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. We get on Janes adrenaline kick when she wins, but the movie rarely questions the deeper ramifications of her actions. ***END SPOILER***. But Boynton has done her own framing: This campaign is a precursor to tragedy. Boynton traveled to Bolivia to cover the activity of a high-priced U.S. consulting firm, Greenberg Carville, and Shrum, in the 2002 presidential race, and she had amazingfrankly, flabbergastingaccess. Send your questions or comments about this or any other spoiler to: THEMOVIESPOILER.com. She is approached by Candy, who tells her hes surprised shes working on an unwinnable campaign. Our Brand is Crisis review: While the film is heart-warmingly centered on Bullock, she is at her best neurotic, desperate, redeemable self. "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. 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. Bodine had fled the consulting scene for years after an eruption of conscience that pushed her to mental breakdown, sobriety, and pottery. [5] On September 11, Scoot McNairy was added to the cast. Thats why Hollywood had to invent a character with such powers: the knowing, salty political consultant. Their main tactic is to emphasize the many problems of the economy and present Castillo as the solution. (The daughter killed herself as a result.). At a Rivera campaign stop, Jane is seen talking to Candy. An SUV carrying the Castillo advisors sees him and stop to give him a ride home, insisted upon by Jane. Our Brand Is Crisis review - dirty political dealings in South America. George Clooney and Grant Heslov produced. 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. We know this stuff happens, but its still clarifying to see the curtains pulled back. 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. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. During a debate prep session, Castillo and Jane engage in a heated argument in which Jane says they are all just puppets in the political game, and that nobody is in charge. Thanks for reading the spoiler. 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. A one-stop-shop for all things video games. 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. 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. 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. (A heavy back story is subsequently revealed, followed by an ever heavier back story to the back story.) Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. Although I hasten to add that even by the standards of Bullocks implacable, steel-jawed underacting this is a dull performance. Jane is talking with Nell, and insults her about her dedication to the campaign. A young man working on the campaign, Eduardo (Reynaldo Pacheco) comes to the rescue of Castillo and ushers him away. Toronto Film Review: 'Our Brand Is Crisis' Sandra Bullock plays a ruthless political stategist in a role inspired by Rachel Boynton's docu and intended for producer George Clooney to play. Heres my idea for a Hollywood ending: People are inspired to seek out Boyntons great documentary, which throws a spotlight on one of Americas least-known but most consequential exports. It begins poorly, with an odd montage intercut to stagey interview footage in which Bullocks character, Calamity Jane Bodine, formulates an apologia for we-dont-quite-know-what. 2023 Vox Media, LLC. A bra is used as a slingshot, and two shirtless men are briefly shown. (R. 107 minutes.) At another commercial set inside a warehouse, several llamas are there, and Castillo is set to compare the future of Bolivia with llamas, who work hard. [16], On August 21, 2014, Bullock's casting was confirmed, playing a retired political consultant called 'Calamity' Jane Bodine, and David Gordon Green was set to direct the film. [21] It had a wide release in 2,202 theaters for 21 days. : What The Hell Happened? Several candidates separate the two. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. All contents 2023 The Slate Group LLC. On a bus trip to a mountainous countryside, protesters start throwing rocks at the bus. The image of that boy haunts Our Brand Is Crisis, so that the U.S. strategists who do a bang-up job of getting the wrong man elected to the wrong place at the wrong time look like agents of catastrophe.. While it would have been nice if the supporting characters were just as well developed (Candys entire purpose seems to be to enter a scene, taunt Jane, and then leave), Jane is a compelling figure, and its unfortunate that the film doesnt match her complexity. Is it money? It is only the knowing, salty political consultant who can bridge the gap between political reality and tidy fictional narrative. The police arrive and the demonstration quickly turns into a riot. The opposition's top political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. However, when two strategists for a struggling Bolivian presidential campaign pique her interest, she goes down to the South American country to see if she should get back in the fight. Montage of the press reporting throughout the day. Politics takes to cynicism like shit to a cesspool. Castillo and the campaign team are on the outdoor set of a commercial for the Senator. There are 12 misuses of god, Jesus (1), Jesus Christ (1), hell (3) and d*mn (3). He overhears him making plans to visit the IMF in New York, and is crestfallen. Gonis second term as president barely lasted a year, after his plans to allow an international consortium to build a pipeline and ship Bolivian natural gas to North America at dirt-cheap prices sparked a massive popular uprising. Password must be at least 8 characters and contain: As part of your account, youll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime. February 27, 2023. 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. Jane is goaded by patronizing men into proving herself in ways shes not proud of. This movie offers us the tale of the fall and redemption of an unscrupulous white lady -- who we know cannot really be unscrupulous since shes Sandra Bullock. Some said it was staunchly communist. Ben meets her in the hallway and she immediately says hes not a winner, and he cannot win. 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. After a traumatizing career as a political campaign consultant, Bodine has retired to the snowy mountains, where she doesnt smoke and makes bowls. When she starts giving it back to himpsyching him outthe movie gets really good. Answer. Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. Not all movies preach, for example, action movies are usually more about the entertainment of watching good triumph over evil. 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. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. ts=String.fromCharCode(60); Instead of superhuman strength or projectile spider-webs, this puppet master has in her arsenal a penchant for drinking and smoking, instant access to the perfect quip at the perfect time, and a convenient lack of morality. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. 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. 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 emotional investment Green wants to make in Jane feels misplaced, especially since he also wants to celebrate moments when she behaves abhorrently. It's a case study, if nothing else, of starting with a dubious idea and making it downright awful. In Bolivia, altitude sickness (at 12 thousand feet, La Paz is the worlds highest capital) and sickness with the candidate nearly drive her away. Senator Pedro Castillo, President of Bolivia 15 years ago, is once again running for the country's top job. The premise doesn't really show up until the end of the movie. Our Brand Is Crisis Review: Champions of Cynicism | TIFF 2015. [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. When it does, Jane moons the Rivera bus. She can quote appropriate nuggets of wisdom from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and from the world's leaders and thinkers. Reluctantly enlisted to help elect the unlikable bully Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida), Jane gets the bit between her teeth when she discovers that her arch-rival, Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), is running the oppositions campaign. They are then in a restaurant, the entire campaign team drinking heavily. Thats the problem with focusing a story on the diabolical strategist, the one mythical figure in this godforsaken political system whos got it all figured out. She looks across the large foyer to see Candy sitting outside his room. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. 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