Like A Rolling Stoner: Burnout Comedy 'The Beach Bum' Is A Balm
In writer/director Harmony Korine's latest, Matthew McConaughey plays a South Florida stoner/poet. It's a meandering, ecstatic, and ultimately "brilliant embrace of body, pleasure and art."
Harmony Korine has spent much of his cinematic career walking his audience through the depths of Hell in films like the poverty-stricken Gummo, the schizophrenic nightmare Julien Donkey-Boy, and his candy-colored, millennial opus (his first Floridian foray). He's spent some time in Purgatory too (as in his offbeat 2007 drama , about a commune of celebrity impersonators). In his newest film, , artist, writer, poet, director Korine may have finally found what he was looking fo all along: a little bit of Heaven.
