Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This film was one of the most touching I've seen in a long time. When it started out, I had no idea what to expect - in fact, it was funny and pretty sad to see Michael dancing in the street, and on the motorbike with the monkey. But this film really developed into something more when he got to Scotland with Marilyn. It became magical. I don't know how they managed to make the film feel so raw and natural, since it was so surreal. It just...worked. Everything about the characters made them seem so down to earth and human. I especially liked how they made mistakes- how unlike in other films where everything was "one take and perfect", this had a charming quality that completely blew me away. The whole movie represented the world, and life, and the people who reside in it. The times when Michael was introspective, and discussed the meaning of everything gave me shivers. What he said really resonated with me. Also, I loved how the nun scenes always came in at the right time, and really helped the story and the moments that were had. The imagery was FANTASTIC. The way it was filmed was wonderful and engaging. The soundtrack was beyond perfect. The ending was...wow. It just completely made sense to me, the whole movie just came into context - I found myself saying "Wow, this is truly the glory of the universe, this is life." I came to an epiphany - and that's what I look for in a film. It was beautiful, sad, happy, wonderful, meaningful, and it's a must see. Mister Lonely definitely deserves a watch.

Why would anyone make a film like this? Why would anybody invest in a film like this? Why would anybody in the film business work on a film like this? Why would any theatre show a film like this? Why would any TV channel program a film like this? Why would any critic bother to review a film like this? Why would anybody watch a film like this? Why would mental examinations not be made of the writers/producers/directors of a film like this? Sometimes there are movies that are so bad they're good. This is a movie that is so ghastly that it's horrible. IMDb really must institute a "0" or even a minus scale to embrace works of this appallingly pretentious awfulness.

Since no one makes movies like Harmony Korine, I'm not sure what the standard for critique is. So suffice to say it's really beautiful, unsettling, rambling, and actually kind of spiritual. Love his movies or not he is an honest filmmaker with a true sense of the surreal and the poetry that lurks in the strangest details. The casting is brilliant and the structure unique and pure Korine. The premise is the wacky goings on at a retreat for celebrity and historical impersonators tucked away in (where?) the Scottish Highlands. They are rehearsing a "play" of some kind. It makes for some beautiful moments. This story is told against another story of nuns who want to jump without parachutes from an airplane to prove the possibility of miracles (as legend claims did happen once) Needless to say this has ripe opportunities,especially when you have Werner Herzog playing the pilot. (Korine says the scene with the man waiting for his wife to return to the airport is an actual caught conversation. THIS you have to see to believe). At the screening I attended, an very odd fan's comment to Korine was simply; "Nuns floating dead on a beach. Awesome image man.Dude you rock". Korine says the two stories are really the same thing. Hmmm - I guess so. Putting the great, great Samantha Morton together with Herzog, Richard Strange, Leos Carax (Pola X), Anita Pallenberg, Diego Luna, and James Fox - matches any casting coup by John Waters. The story may be criticized as forced and ridiculous, but Korine is willing to take bold chances, to mix it up and. with the help of great actors and wonderful cinematography he create of a work of real cinema poetry.

Harmony Korine. I'm not sure what he was trying to do with this film. If it was to turn my good day feeling into a night of disturbing memories than I guess he succeeded.I know that there were big questions raised in this movie like, who are we really, what are we here for, is there really a God. All great questions, But I really don't think that is funny when you have the questions along side such tragedy. I'm all for real life being portrayed but come on. It's never funny when a wife is being raped, someone killing themselves (and family and friends find the body) and people die for unexplained and unnecessary reasons.The only good thing about this movie was the location it was filmed. There is a lot of beautiful places.I'm not a film student or even know all that much on the subject I admit this, but I do know that when I leave the theater with a feeling of disgust, then it was not a film I would recommend to anyone.