
After racing in New Hampshire, the lonely motorcycle racer Bud Clay drives his van in a five-day journey to California for the next race. Along his trip, he meets fans, a lonely women, and prostitutes, but he leaves them since he is actually pining for the woman he loves, Daisy. He goes to her house and leaves a note telling where he is lodged. Out of the blue, Daisy appears in his hotel room and soon he learns the reason of why he can't find her.... (Full plot summary below)
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After racing in New Hampshire, the lonely motorcycle racer Bud Clay drives his van in a five-day journey to California for the next race. Along his trip, he meets fans, a lonely women, and prostitutes, but he leaves them since he is actually pining for the woman he loves, Daisy. He goes to her house and leaves a note telling where he is lodged. Out of the blue, Daisy appears in his hotel room and soon he learns the reason of why he can't find her.
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| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionBob TownsendMuch like Bruno Dumont's equally provocative Twentynine Palms, Gallo's peculiarly earnest film ultimately questions the nature of cinema, that continuum of reality and illusion that starts when the theater dims and the screen lights up. |
| Dallas Morning NewsCharles EalyNarcissisistic, self-indulgent, solipsistic claptrap is still narcissistic, self-indulgent, solipsistic claptrap, no matter how long or short. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzA humorless self-indulgent and self-loathing mess that is saddled with an uninteresting story and arty pretensions. |
| Film ScoutsJason GorberAs a truncated work, it stands as a road movie tone poem. |
| FilmJerk.comBrian OrndorfIt feels like a million years to get to the destination, but the journey, along with the chance to view a rare individual cinematic accomplishment, is worth the trouble. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawThough it can lull with its throbbing implosiveness, it can also seduce with its vision of a world at its end, swallowing itself in inexorable inches appalled and revolted. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThe Brown Bunny is certainly about how vain Gallo is. Yet rarely has narcissism produced such a handsome work of cinema. |
| San Francisco ChronicleNeva ChoninAn idiosyncratic document of sexual obsession and guilt, it alienates as easily as it mesmerizes. |
| Reel.comTimothy KnightFor much of the film's seemingly endless running time (ninety-five minutes), Gallo and his ego crowd the frame in this self-indulgent exercise in pretentiousness reminiscent of early seventies-era counterculture films at their most aimless. |
| Filmcritic.comAaron Lazenbygiven the sustained noise generated by The Brown Bunny, such a quiet achievement amounts to a resounding success |