![]() He also pines for his deceased wife, going so far as begging Chris to wear his mother's wedding dress and dance with him. During one of Chris's exercise sessions, his father forces him outside in the cold and hoses him down with water. The family's father spends the majority of his time recounting national historical narratives, drinking, and inflicting psychological and physical abuse on Chris. When he is denied, he strangles the boy, then buries his body in the mud before praying for mercy from God.Īt home, Julien resides with his dysfunctional family, consisting of his domineering and emotionless German father his childlike pregnant sister Pearl (whose child may be Julien's) his younger brother, Chris, an aspiring wrestler who spends his days exercising and practicing wrestling moves and their paternal grandmother, who is largely disconnected from the rest of the family. Fascinated by the turtles, Julien asks if he can have one. Julien, a young man with untreated schizophrenia, meets a young boy playing with several turtles in a New York City park. Julien Donkey-Boy was 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 also stars Chloë Sevigny as Julien's sister, Pearl, and Werner Herzog as his father. The story concentrates on Julien, a man with schizophrenia, played by Scottish actor Ewen Bremner, and his dysfunctional family. Julien Donkey-Boy is a 1999 American experimental drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine.
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