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He tells her that he did not know what to do, and so he decided to leave the party. Daisy asks Bud why he did not help her, and his feelings of guilt about this are considerable. Through flashback scenes, the viewer understands that Daisy was raped at the party, a scene witnessed by Bud, who did not intervene. Bud becomes upset because Daisy was pregnant and it transpires that the baby died as a result of what happened at this party. She explains that she was just being friendly and wanted to smoke marijuana with them. Bud continuously asks Daisy why she had been involved with some men at a party. Once done, he insults her as they lie in bed, talking about what happened during their last meeting. At this point, Bud undresses Daisy and she fellates him. They have an argument about Daisy kissing other men. As she proposes to go out to buy something to drink, Bud tells her that, because of what happened the last time they saw each other, he does not drink anymore.

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She seems nervous, going to the bathroom twice to smoke crack cocaine, while Bud waits for her, sitting on his bed. He leaves a note on the door frame, after sitting in his truck in the driveway remembering about kissing Daisy in this place, and checks in at a hotel. She eats McDonald's food in his truck until he stops, pays her, and leaves her back on the street.Īfter having his motorcycle checked in a Los Angeles garage, Bud stops at Daisy's house, which appears abandoned. In Las Vegas, he drives around prostitutes on street corners, before deciding to ask one of them, Rose, to join him for a lunch. He stops at the Bonneville Speedway to race his motorcycle. Bud appears more distressed as the road trip continues, crying as he drives. He comforts and kisses her, before starting to cry and eventually leaving her. At a highway rest stop, he meets a distressed woman, Lilly. Next, Bud stops at a pet shelter, where he asks about the life expectancy of rabbits (he is told it is about five or six years). Daisy's mother does not remember Bud, who grew up in the house next door, nor does she remember having visited Bud and Daisy in California. They stop at her home in order to get her clothes, but he drives off as soon as she enters the house.īud's next stop is the home of Daisy's parents, the location of Daisy's brown bunny. He first meets Violet at a gas station in New Hampshire and convinces her to join him on his trip. On his journey he meets three women, but Bud seems to be a lost soul, and he is unable to form an emotional connection with any of them. All the while he is haunted by memories of his former lover, Daisy. Motorcycle racer Bud Clay undertakes a cross-country drive, following a race in New Hampshire, in order to participate in a race in California. The film has since gained a small cult following, with several filmmakers and publications having listed it as one of the greatest films of the decade. The film received mixed and heavily polarized reviews from critics, and was nominated for several accolades, including the Palme d'Or. Ebert stated that The Brown Bunny was the worst film in the history of Cannes, although he later gave a re-edited version his signature ' thumbs up', awarding the film 3/4 stars. It was photographed with handheld 16 mm cameras in various locations throughout the United States, including New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ohio, Missouri, Utah, Nevada, and California.įollowing a world premiere at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, the film garnered a great deal of media attention because of an explicit scene where Sevigny performs unsimulated fellatio on Gallo, as well as a feud between Gallo and the film critic Roger Ebert. Starring Gallo and Chloë Sevigny, it tells the story of a motorcycle racer on a cross-country drive who is haunted by memories of his former lover. The Brown Bunny is a 2003 experimental road drama film written, directed, produced, photographed and edited by Vincent Gallo.