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

by Alex Billington
May 21, 2009

What the heck is Jim Carrey doing in Cannes? Good, 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 happy 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 queer , 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 lgbtq+ 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 feeling resonance when the character is same-sex attracted 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 bloke 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 impartial 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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“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 yearn to do that? You really want to do that scene? I mean, honestly, that’s going to stick in people’s minds.’ And I said, ‘Exactly. I want to do things that stick in people’s minds. I think Steven Russell was a man who’s on a journey of love, trying to validate 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 love. He would do anything to get what he needs. He’s broken out of prison several times.” - - Jim Carrey in the Chicago Tribune

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I Love You Phillip Morris (out this week after months of entity in release-date limbo) is a right story about a man who can't stop living lies. In real being, that man's call is Steven Russell; in the feature, he's played by Jim Carrey. Sometimes it's hard to tell Russell and Carrey apart, if that makes any sense. It's unfeasible to watch one likable-seeming man unable to accept who he really is playing another likable-seeming man with the same curse and not feel unpleasant 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 settle he's gay, but he decides he's stone-cold queen same-sex attracted, with a pair of tiny dogs and a crush and an costly Miami Beach lifestyle. So he must also become a con artist, and we watch him trade one place 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 like with Phillip Morris, played quite beautifully by Ewan McGregor.

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