Review of Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) by Juan L — 24 Aug 2008

The film is purposefully difficult. After all I can imagine it being pretty impossible to display cinematically the effects of schizophrenia, no matter how good a performance. There is a great performance from the whole cast, I especially enjoyed Herzog's bizarre father figure.

There's n real plot and the Dogma 95 aspects hinder rather than help this film. I did enjoy the cinematography which was especially grainy and filled with noise, it added a very dark and distant tone.

Weird and interesting but never engaging or ground breaking.