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Bruno - Movie from Universal
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The Fool on the Hill
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Mon 29 June 2009
The extraordinary Sacha Baron Cohen has created in Bruno a character who is more sophisticated than Borat, but all the more nauseous for that. With his un-erring eye for comic potential he has zeroed in on the grisly world of small time Eurotrash TV personalities. Bruno is in fact all of these creatures and none of them at the same time, but for ease of reference Baron Cohen has made him gay and Austrian – stroke of genius, but tough on the Austrians and probably not too good for gays.
Our views of these ‘small, charming, and innocent’ European nations have changed recently, and both Belgium and Austria (though not Holland) have come in for a bit of flack. They seem to have developed a problem with child molestation of one kind or another, and exude an unwholesome air of petty bourgeois perversion that is both fascinating and distasteful.
This tends to obscure the fact that both these sweet little countries have much more serious skeletons in their modest closets. The Belgian Congo was considered even by standards of the time to be appallingly cruel operation, and the Austria’s more than whole hearted involvement in the Nazi cause should remain a source of shame. Bruno could easily have been Belgian, but Baron Cohen has decided to go for the Austrians, and I respect his judgement on this. The trailer is quite low key, which makes me think the movie may be an absolute hoot. What I mean is that I don’t think they were able to or felt it necessary to use the best bits in the trailer, either way it’s a very good sign.
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