Sitting through the film's tedious unfolding can be an interesting mental exercise.
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06/01/06
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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]
Reviews for Drawing Restraint 9
Top CriticThroughout, Barney drowns the screen in arresting images ... that nail your eyes to the screen.
07/08/06
It's hard to shake the sense that there's less here than meets the eye, but what meets the eye burns with a rare intensity.
04/06/06
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10/02/07
Like John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy, a surreal, vaguely plausible explanation of why two people are crazy about each other.
05/26/06
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04/23/09
Offers no restraint on the writer/director's penchant for weird esoterica.
08/25/06
A push/pull experience: The storytelling, what there is of it, pushes us away, but the hypnotic visuals pull us back.
05/06/06
A work as vast, monstrous, and mysteriously graceful as a whale.
09/25/07
An overblown home movie with almost no dialogue.
04/19/06
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
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10/18/08
Drawing Restraint 9 belongs to an endangered species of experimental film that walks the line between challenging and alienating its audience.
09/08/06
At 135 minutes, this overly long exercise in abstraction sinks under the weight of its Moby Dick-sized self-importance.
04/21/06
Usually, I like to align myself with out-there talents striving to make deeply personal works but in the case of Matthew Barney, this particular art-world emperor reveals himself to be naked and if he isn’t ashamed, he probably should be.
05/06/06
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09/28/07
Drawing 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
However enigmatic this all might be, there is no denying that Barney has assembled some rivetingly beautiful images.
03/01/07
Drawing Restraint 9 is Barney again creating something tenaciously abstract, but this time the result is more serene and approachable.
06/06/06
It doesn't make any sense, but then this is Matthew Barney, master of the mysterious, and I don't mean that in a good way.
04/06/06
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