...suffers from the loss of experiencing Barney's visual imagination for the first time.
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05/27/06
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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
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
Top CriticDoesn't advance the Barney oeuvre an inch past where he left it with his massive, megalomaniacal opus known as the Cremaster series.
05/25/06
Barney and Björk certainly deserve each other; theirs is a match made purgatorial.
05/25/06
Bjork appears to have been a good influence on Barney: The soundtrack, which she supervised and participates in, is well worth the time for fans of experimental music.
05/19/06
Not since the collaborations of Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi), have music and visuals been so satisfyingly combined.
05/18/06
You could think of admission to Drawing Restraint 9 as an $8.25 nap.
05/18/06
Moby ick.
05/18/06
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
Allegedly all these incidents connect symbolically in Barney's mind, but in the viewer's, they thud, inert and separate as stones.
05/12/06
A push/pull experience: The storytelling, what there is of it, pushes us away, but the hypnotic visuals pull us back.
05/06/06
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
Barney writes in the press kit that the heart of the piece is 'the relationship between self-imposed resistance and creativity.' Okay, fine. But do we care? Not this reviewer.
04/21/06
It's full of arcane symbolism and alarming imagery and lots of smart, goofy-sounding Bjork music.
04/21/06
At 135 minutes, this overly long exercise in abstraction sinks under the weight of its Moby Dick-sized self-importance.
04/21/06
The experience is at times taxing, but the imagery ... is undeniably arresting and sticky.
04/20/06
Top CriticIt’s difficult to see the characters as anyone but Barney and Björk, and the film’s binary system, opposing hard and soft, East and West, male and female, etc., feels clumsy and simplistic.
04/20/06
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
An overblown home movie with almost no dialogue.
04/19/06
Slow and repetitive, the film might be worth a few minutes of attention when encountered on a video screen in a museum display, but at 135 minutes it doesn't provide much reward for a viewer's rapt attention.
04/19/06
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