Bremner met the uncle and listened to tape recordings of him in preparation for the role, even going so far to spend six weeks working in a Manhattan psychiatric hospital. This is a very scattered non-narrative, exemplified by the peculiar part-doco filming style (courtesy of the Dogma 95 movement), which goes to show the chaotically interpreted life of Julien, who’s given an equally scattered performance by Bremner.ĭirector Harmony Korine’s own schizophrenic uncle was the inspiration for this film and central character.
Strongly tempted to put Werner Herzog’s rare acting performance as the awful and sadly hilarious patriarch here instead, but Ewen Bremner’s transformative, authentic, and sympathetic (without a pinch of sugar-coating) portrayal of the titular character with schizophrenia is one of the most genuine filmic portrayals of this debilitating mental condition. The last ten years of the previous millennium contained some seriously great acting from the most significant new form of art and entertainment of the 20th century.Īt a time when the blockbuster was well and truly developing, and the commercial promises of film seemed to be getting even more attention, whilst new technology in the second half of the decade allowed even more low-budget films to get made, the ‘90s were swamped with all sorts of great films that may’ve been obscured by blockbuster behemoths or awards-friendly critical darlings.Īnd in these great films contained some of the finest acting of the decade, some of which could be called the best acting the cinema has ever been graced with, so here are the films and the film actors who put something incredibly special on screen that deserves to be seen by more people.ġ5.
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