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" ROGER EBERT FIRED THE FIRST VOLLEY, proclaiming Vincent Gallo&amp;#039;s minimalist road movie the worst film ever to compete at Cannes within seconds of its first press screening. By the end of the following day, the consensus had formed: Narcissistic. Tedious. Laughable. Disastrous. The world of low-budget indies had at long last produced its Ishtar. Have you seen Ishtar lately? It&amp;#039;s actually pretty damn funny. One school of thought would certainly hold that any movie in which the director persuades a beautiful, Oscar-nominated ingenue to blow him on camera automatically qualifies as an unalloyed triumph. Even if persistent rumors of a prosthesis are true, though, The Brown Bunny has more going for it than Chloe Sevigny&amp;#039;s literally climactic appearance as dream girl Daisy. The cut shown at Cannes was admittedly overlong\u2014Gallo has since trimmed it by half an hour, removing most of the elements singled out as jeerworthy\u2014but only an incorrigible cynic (read: film critic) could fail to register the doleful grandeur of its numerous driving sequences, with their rain-spattered view of mundane heartland vistas set to unabashedly sincere tunes by the likes of Gordon Lightfoot. I can&amp;#039;t wait to see which of the nation&amp;#039;s blurb whores will have the guts to call it &amp;quot;explosive!&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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