At 135 minutes, this overly long exercise in abstraction sinks under the weight of its Moby Dick-sized self-importance.
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04/21/06
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Drawing Restraint 9 (2006)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:27
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Some of the images are striking, if confusing, but the film is unbearably slow and tedious.
Theatrical Release:Mar 29, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Matthew Barney teams up with Bjork for DRAWING RESTRAINT 9. In this highly experimental film in the style of Barney's CREMASTER cycle, Bjork also provides the soundtrack, making it essential... [More]
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10/18/08
Surprisingly linear and entrancing like a comfy drug haze... but how does one emotionally or intellectually engage with cinema that spends all its energy just being unique?
03/29/06
As visually stunning as it is, DR9 is also more than two hours and contains, at best, 10 lines of dialogue, an ear-piercing Bjork score and no discernible plot.
04/06/06
Drawing Restraint 9 lacks that sense of visiting an altogether fresh, personal universe that provided much of the fascination of the Cremasters.
04/20/06
A work as vast, monstrous, and mysteriously graceful as a whale.
09/25/07
Not since the collaborations of Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi), have music and visuals been so satisfyingly combined.
05/18/06
It's full of arcane symbolism and alarming imagery and lots of smart, goofy-sounding Bjork music.
04/21/06
Sitting through the film's tedious unfolding can be an interesting mental exercise.
06/01/06
Top CriticDrawing Restraint 9 is Barney again creating something tenaciously abstract, but this time the result is more serene and approachable.
06/06/06
The experience is at times taxing, but the imagery ... is undeniably arresting and sticky.
04/20/06
Top CriticYou could think of admission to Drawing Restraint 9 as an $8.25 nap.
05/18/06
Moby ick.
05/18/06
Barney and Björk certainly deserve each other; theirs is a match made purgatorial.
05/25/06
However enigmatic this all might be, there is no denying that Barney has assembled some rivetingly beautiful images.
03/01/07
Primarily for those who fancy New Age-ish Viking howling and admirers of multi-media experimentalist Matthew Barney.
03/26/06
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