Drawing Restraint 9

Unless you want to see a dragged out music video which lasts for two hours, don't waste your time or money. I could've seen this movie in fast forward speed and not missed the plot or message of the film. Out... Full review

I support any artist freedom of expression. However, Barney has thoroughly insulted the Asian (my) culture. First, he turned some of Asian's most honored, most beautiful tradition into something loathsome and grotesque. His version of our tea ceremony is a dorky,... Full review

I would just like to say that you have no idea what the hell you are talking about. I understand that Matthew Barney's work can be very difficult to makes sense of, but if you are going to go to see... Full review

Unless you want to see a dragged out music video which lasts for two hours, don't waste your time or money. I could've seen this movie in fast forward speed and not missed the plot or message of the film. Out... Full review

I support any artist freedom of expression. However, Barney has thoroughly insulted the Asian (my) culture. First, he turned some of Asian's most honored, most beautiful tradition into something loathsome and grotesque. His version of our tea ceremony is a dorky,... Full review

I would just like to say that you have no idea what the hell you are talking about. I understand that Matthew Barney's work can be very difficult to makes sense of, but if you are going to go to see... Full review

This film is massively boring and pretentious. There is only one good moment when a sailor shaves Mr Barney's(think the purple dinosaur-less pretense) eyebrow. The music is relentlessly cloying-it is sad that Bjork, someone with so much inner beauty, has... Full review

First of all with a film like Drawing Restraint 9 I don't believe anything hugely definitive can be said. Most people will take a different view on it complete with their own interpretation (if any). Here's my opinion: I enjoy... Full review

As with reading all comments, you will find it useful to know where the writer is placed. I have watched the first "Cremaster" and Barney's entry in the "Destricted" compilation. That latter piece was a failure in my mind. There's... Full review

It you are Japanese or know something about Japanese mythology and/or whaling culture in japan, then this movie will mean a lot more to you than others. I know most people who watch this movie will come out of the... Full review

As the film gloops its way to a violent Along the way, the vessel picks up Björk , whose music and cheeky-faced acting briefly enliven the next 180 minutes. ... Full Review

Sad to say, the new Matthew Barney opus, "Drawing Restraint 9," made in collaboration with his main squeeze, Bjork, doesn't advance the Barney oeuvre an inch past where he left it with his massive, megalomaniacal opus known as the "Cremaster" series. ... Full Review

Barney bends patience breaking points even further with a mid-movie, meticulously choreographed tea ceremony that stops the movie dead with its numbing indulgence....I would recommend this film to anyone new to Barney's work.....Contemporary art world mastermind Matthew Barney often comes across like David Lynch without the sense of humor and cheery belief in cinematic mischief.....Restraint" has astonishing moments of undeniable beauty and curious ritualized transformations....Barney is a beloved abstract ... Full Review

The persistent image from Barney's spooky, narcotic, and sometimes preposterous Cremaster films was the phallus-a constant in a perpetual state of flux.....a heady, not-entirely terrible piece of experimental pop music just short of unlistenable-is beautiful, maddeningly indigestible, and, finally, impossible to dismiss.....Drawing Restraint 9 is a less visionary and more perplexing work than any of those films, mainly.... ... Full Review

The song, set to harp music, is strangely beautiful.....I do not like Matthew Barney....do I plan on liking Matthew Barney.....It ends up being a fantastic ghost story.... ... Full Review

Few musical traditions are more peculiar and compelling than the katajjaq throat singing of the Inuit , a 25,000-strong native population concentrated in Canada's Nunavut territory. ... Full Article

Matthew Barney, auteur of the bizarro Cremaster Cycle, is back with more weirdness - and this time, off-screen partner Bjork is in on the act. ... Full Article

When Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 was released last year, I characterized the world therein as Matthew Barney's Own Private Japan or even Matthew Barney's Japanese Theme Park: It was less a created universe than his earlier Cremaster cycle and... ... Full Article

By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Drawing Restraint 9, a film starring art world celebrity Matthew Barney and music superstar Bjork, is the ultimate progeny of fine art and pop culture forecast by earlier couplings that resulted when High and Low ... Full Article

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