Lentorama 2014: We're Ready for Your Closeup, Your Holiness

Day 14: Mister Lonely

A Michael Jackson impersonator working in Paris meets a Marilyn Monroe impersonator who invites him back to the Scottish commune that she runs with her husband, Charlie Chaplin, and daughter Shirley Temple. In an apparently unrelated plot, there are a group of nuns jumping out of airplanes (without parachutes) to prove that God will protect you if you're true of heart.

James Fox (who is pretty much the reigning British "hey, it's that guy!") plays the Pope (I'm assuming Benedict XVI based on it being a 2007 release), while other notable performers include Samantha Morton as Marilyn and Werner Herzog as a priest (impersonator, I assume). The film is probably most notable as being written and directed by Harmony Korine, who made a splash about 20 years ago for his screenplay for Kids (written as a teenager himself). I hadn't thought of him in years, though he also made 2012's Spring Breakers, about a group of college kids who commit robbery to fund their spring break trip, which I vaguely remember. No pope in that one, sorry to say.