Allegedly all these incidents connect symbolically in Barney's mind, but in the viewer's, they thud, inert and separate as stones.
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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]
Reviews for Drawing Restraint 9
Top CriticAs 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
Top CriticA work as vast, monstrous, and mysteriously graceful as a whale.
09/25/07
Conventional storytelling may not be Barney’s thing, but he has a superb cinematic eye, an incredible imagination and the wherewithal to make his visions happen.
03/09/07
Barney and Björk certainly deserve each other; theirs is a match made purgatorial.
05/25/06
An overblown home movie with almost no dialogue.
04/19/06
Top CriticDrawing Restraint 9 is a lovely thought, but it's not a surprising one; going out on that proverbial limb, it all might be much ado about nothing.
05/12/06
The experience is at times taxing, but the imagery ... is undeniably arresting and sticky.
04/20/06
Top Critic...suffers from the loss of experiencing Barney's visual imagination for the first time.
05/27/06
Moby ick.
05/18/06
Top CriticOffers no restraint on the writer/director's penchant for weird esoterica.
08/25/06
It is a series of lyrical ambiguities filtered through the prism of Japanese religious and whaling cultures that defy literal interpretation even as they are sculpted into physical significance.
08/04/06
A tapestry of sensuous, striking and sometimes disturbing imagery, Drawing Restraint 9 marks the latest cinematic visit to the wacky world of experimental artist Matthew Barney.
09/15/05
Top CriticA gorgeous feature that's both passing strange and undeniably beautiful.
03/29/06
What is undeniable is that this, even more than Barney's previous work, is a film of outrageous, startling ingenuity and beauty.
08/07/06
Like Björk's Medulla%u2014a heady, not-entirely terrible piece of experimental pop music just short of unlistenable%u2014Drawing Restraint 9 is beautiful, maddeningly indigestible, and impossible to resist.
02/19/06
An unsatisfying marriage of excessive production values with insipid cinematography and flat-footed editing.
03/28/06
Top Critic[Barney's] pieces are wrought with meaning, and it's best to approach them with the mindset that literally everything on screen is loaded with significance
09/20/05
You could think of admission to Drawing Restraint 9 as an $8.25 nap.
05/18/06
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
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