This is one of the saddest relationship films I have seen! It's like a bizarre wet dream with a couple who are destined to destroy themselves. It was made with a low budget, and anyone who doesn't appreciate that is a loser. Chloe Sevegny is so lucky in this role to work with Vincent Gallo, as he is my idol and i worship him! The ending - OMG i love it!

...is having to admit you watched it in order to write a review of it. Fortunately, home video has this thing called "fast forward," a handy little thing that cinematic presentations can't deliver, and you can bet your bottom dollar I used it liberally while viewing this dreadfully pretentious, arid bit of self-indulgent nonsense. I get it; Vince "Buffalo '66" Gallo is an artiste. That's peachy. However, it doesn't mean he's a good one. Chloë "Kids" Sevigny is an actress who likes doing edgy, non-commercial stuff, even though she occasionally manages to get cast in mainstream films like "Zodiac." I get that, too. And Cheryl "Definitely not an actress" Tiegs is a dried- up ex-supermodel who needed something to do to stay in the public eye. I get that as well. But none of that provides any justification for "The Brown Bunny," no matter how one might think otherwise.So, what does "The Brown Bunny" accomplish? Well, very little, actually. It cements Gallo's reputation as a narcissistic hack, destroying any commercial credibility he may have garnered as a writer or director. It confirms Sevigny's oral talents and determination to avoid becoming an A-list actor. It immortalizes the effects of encroaching old age on over-the-hill supermodels. And it undoubtedly puts a lot of foolish moviegoers to sleep before they get to the paltry sex scene that should have marked the end of a 20-minute short.That's all she wrote, folks; I can't be bothered to further dissect this withered corpse of a movie. Plenty of other mavens here have wasted far more bandwidth than I care to appropriate to warn you away from this thing. Watch at your own risk of stultifying boredom.

"If my film is not comprehensible to people then I have failed in my purpose. I am disappointed that, once again, what I like is unpopular. I can only apologise to the people who feel they have wasted their time." - Vincent Gallo Destroyed by critics, "The Brown Bunny" is an interesting film by writer/director Vincent Gallo. Reminiscent of American counter-culture road movies of the 1970s and late 1960s ("Easy Rider", "Vanishing Point", "Zabriskie Point", "Two-Lane Blacktop" etc), the film is resolutely minimalistic, was shot on 16mm stock and with a limited crew.The plot? Gallo plays Bud Clay, a young man who may or may not be a motorcycle racer and who may or may not have recently lost a lover. Much of the film's first act watches as Clay drives cross-country from New Hampshire to California. These driving sequences are filmed with a static camera, usually affixed to the inside of Clay's vehicle. Critics complain that such sequences are a bore, but they also capture a certain prosaic truth; the tempo of being behind a wheel and driving across sunbaked, American streets, the lazy gaits of pedestrians, the incessant drawl of car engines, the silence of cheap motel rooms, the haunting qualities of empty homes...Gallo captures a kind of in-plain-sight alienation.When Clay's not driving in circles, lost in thought and time, he's seducing a series of women. They're all named after flowers, and are all representative of certain aspects of a woman called Daisy (Chloe Sevigny). There's Violent, representative of youth, Lily, representative of middle age, and Rose, associated with prostitution and junk food. Outside these women is Mrs Lemon, Daisy's mother.The film climaxes with a sequence in which Clay fantasises about "having sex" with Daisy. After this sex act, we learn that Daisy died after being raped and that Clay was present during the incident but did not intervene. He thus feels guilty for her death. Whether Clay's recollections are reliable or not, is debatable. Either the film is played straight, or Clay choked Daisy during a sex act or as revenge (Clay drives about in a serial killer van, flirts with abducting women, tells tales of Daisy almost suffocating on chocolate bunnies etc). Whether Gallo is being this sophisticated – see Lynch's similar "The Straight Story", a road movie which told a seemingly straight tale, but with much horrors buried underneath – is left up the the audience. If he's not, the film's climax is wholly ridiculous, the film's big revelation silly, poorly delivered and contrived.Interestingly, the film's first 2 thirds are guarded and almost introverted. The film's final act then exposes everything, emotionally and physically, with an unsimulated sex act. This sex act has been heavily criticised. Some view it as a tender moment, many see it as being unnecessary, others as Clay punishing the woman he both loves and loathes. 7.5/10 - Worth one viewing.

I watched Brown Bunny because I saw it listed in a list of the top fifty controversial films by TimeOut New York. After laughing out loud for about a half hour at how nothing had happened yet, I decided to just fast forward through the long boring scenes of driving. When a song started to play and I was forced to look through a bug splattered windshield at the road I simply fast forwarded until the song ended. I did this at least three or four times. Also, when scenes in which I knew nothing was going to happen began, such as when he drives into a gas station and I know already based on the rest of the film that nothing is going to happen except him pumping some gas, I fast forwarded. I watched the scenes in which something was happening, like when he hugged the woman at the rest stop or picked up the young hooker and kept fast forwarding through the driving until I got to the end and I watched that. The entire crux of the entire film can be watched in about half an hour and that still isn't any good.