Julien Donkey-Boy is an avant-garde 1999 independent American drama film directed by Harmony Korine. The screenplay concentrates on the schizophrenic Julien, played by English actor Ewen Bremner, and his dysfunctional family. The film also stars Chloë Sevigny as Julien's sister, Pearl, and Werner Herzog as his father. Julien Donkey-Boy is the sixth film to be made under the self-imposed rules of the "Dogme 95" manifesto, and the first non-Europea...
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Julien Donkey-Boy is an avant-garde 1999 independent American drama film directed by Harmony Korine. The screenplay concentrates on the schizophrenic Julien, played by English actor Ewen Bremner, and his dysfunctional family. The film also stars Chloë Sevigny as Julien's sister, Pearl, and Werner Herzog as his father. Julien Donkey-Boy is the sixth film to be made under the self-imposed rules of the "Dogme 95" manifesto, and the first non-European film to be made under the Dogme 95 "vow of chastity".
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 1999, and received a limited release in Los Angeles at a single cinema on October 15, 1999; the film showed for a month's time at the Los Angeles theater, and grossed a total of $80,226 by that November. It was, however, given a wide theatrical release in European countries the following year, particularly in France and the Netherlands.
The film is about a dysfunctional family consisting of Julien (Ewen Bremner) a young man with...
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