ACE Presents Breakfast of Champions

1999 / 110min / DCP

Rudolph’s adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s 1973 satirical novel Breakfast of Champions, about an upstanding Midwestern auto dealership proprietor slowly coming apart at the seams, received a rough reception on its initial limited release, but over time is increasingly recognized as a work of rare verve and daring, not slavishly transcribing from its source but matching it in madcap brio—thanks in no small part to star Bruce Willis’s screwball chops and the brisk cutting of editor Suzy Elmiger. “One of the best adaptations of a literary work… A mind-blowing vision of the New America — a commercial city off a highway exit — where the excess of mush, dumps, and mud is becoming vomit-inducing… The unusual avant-garde film made with every available means and Hollywood actors.” —Luc Moullet

Distributor: AGFA

Q&A with editor Suzy Elmiger moderated by Meg Reticker, ACE, on Saturday, June 27th

Part of Filmcraft: American Cinema Editors