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Cannes 2009 Review: Jim Carrey's I Admire You Phillip Morris

by Alex Billington
May 21, 2009

What the heck is Jim Carrey doing in Cannes? Adequately, there's a sidebar selection of films, not officially part of the festival, but in the Directors' Fortnight. Since I missed seeing I Love You Phillip Morris at Sundance this year, I wanted to catch it while it was showing in Cannes - I'm pleased I did. Not only was it a breath of fresh air to see an American indie film while at Cannes, but it was simply a great film. Screenwriters Glenn Ficarra and John Requa make their directing debut with Phillip Morris, a comedy based on a true story about two gay lovers who meet in prison that I could describe as Carrey's take on Catch Me If You Can.

Carrey plays the Frank Abagnale character, named Steven Jay Russell, a regular guy from Virginia who one day realizes he is gay and leaves his wife (Leslie Mann) and kids behind. Russell goes all out being homosexual, buying endless clothes and indulging in every last gay desire he can. But, as he says in the film, "it's expensive being gay" and he has no capital. So Russell starts scamming people out of their money. And that's wh

Movie Review: Jim Carrey’s Gay Con Male Actually Great!

The player who adopts a series of masks but has no core has been a tired existential trope since (at least) Sartre’s Kean, but as Steven Russell, a same-sex attracted con man in I Love You, Phillip Morris, Jim Carrey makes it sing. Carrey is the least filled-in of modern clowns, the most desperate, as if he’d dissolve if he stopped doing (or turning) tricks. That desperation takes on an astonishing heartfelt resonance when the character is male lover and forced to live and perform in a homophobic culture. “Normal” is nonsensical, deceit the deepest logic. Subterfuge, compartmentalization—they become second nature. This is where Carrey triumphs, by playing Steven as a human who plays other people.

When he impersonates a successful business executive with a joshing, how’s-your-golf-game façade, the ironic quotation marks around every hearty back slap are terribly entertaining and terribly sad—because you know, as Steven knows, that he’ll push it and push it and push it until he’s exposed. His Achilles Heel is a reasonable young man (Ewan McGregor) he meets in prison with the name Phillip Morris. There’s no artifice there. He loves Phillip Morris.

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I Treasure You Phillip Morris (out this week after months of entity in release-date limbo) is a true story about a gentleman who can't stop living lies. In real life, that man's name is Steven Russell; in the movie, he's played by Jim Carrey. Sometimes it's challenging to tell Russell and Carrey apart, if that makes any sense. It's impossible to survey one likable-seeming man unable to accept who he really is playing another likable-seeming man with the same curse and not feel bad for them both.

Russell is a Virginia cop, married to a Jesus freak with a daughter and a bungalow. That's before he realizes he's really someone else: "I'm gonna be a fag!" he yells into the night. Not only does he decide he's gay, but he decides he's stone-cold queen gay, with a pair of tiny dogs and a boyfriend and an overpriced Miami Beach lifestyle. So he must also become a con artist, and we watch him trade one set of lies (I'm a straight cop, etc.) for another (I'm a makebelieve lawyer, etc.) until he's inevitably caught and sent to the clink, where he meets and falls in love with Phillip Morris, played quite beautifully by Ewan McGregor.

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Jim Carrey talks about male lover role

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“As soon as I read the script...it was a no-brainer for me that I had to do it. There were some people in my life that were saying: ‘You really want to undertake that? You really want to perform that scene? I mean, honestly, that’s going to stick in people’s minds.’ And I said, ‘Exactly. I crave to do things that stick in people’s minds. I think Steven Russell was a bloke who’s on a journey of like, trying to confirm his own worth to himself and the world,. He’s a rather obsessive character in his approach to things. What I loved about him was that he was relentless when it came to affection. He would act anything to receive what he needs. He’s broken out of prison several times.” - - Jim Carrey in the Chicago Tribune

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