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Brüno
2009 83 min United States of America R 18+
★5.9
Comedy
Director: Larry Charles
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Description
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
Budget:
$42M
US Gross:
$60.05M
Worldwide:
$138.81M
Starring
Sacha Baron Cohen
Actor
Gustaf Hammarsten
Actor
Clifford Bañagale
Actor
Awards
2 wins & 5 nominations total
Key opinion
Brüno is a highly polarizing social satire that uses extreme provocation to expose bigotry and media superficiality. While some viewers view it as a fearless, sharp-witted experiment in the vein of Borat, others dismiss it as a vulgar, unengaging collection of shock-comedy bits that lacks a coherent narrative structure.
| Acting | Sacha Baron Cohen delivers a fully committed, transformative performance that anchors the film’s high-stakes improvisation. | |
| Theme | The film functions as a daring social experiment that successfully traps its subjects into revealing their prejudices, though critics argue the execution is often too crude or misdirected to be effective. | |
| Humor | The reliance on graphic sexual imagery and bodily humor is perceived by some as brilliant, high-concept satire, while others reject it as gratuitous, nauseating, and lacking in genuine wit. | |
| Screenplay | The film’s loose, episodic structure and lack of traditional plot make it feel unpolished and disjointed, with detractors questioning if it qualifies as a film at all. |