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.
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04/06/06
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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
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
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
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
Matthew Barney's visually spellbinding film is a work that might be described as the artist's Moby-Dick.
03/29/06
Top CriticAs magical as DR9 may be, it isn't for everyone. Devotees of Bjork and Barney will think they're in heaven, while Mr. and Ms. Cineplex will be reminded of a much warmer place.
03/29/06
A gorgeous feature that's both passing strange and undeniably beautiful.
03/29/06
An unsatisfying marriage of excessive production values with insipid cinematography and flat-footed editing.
03/28/06
Primarily for those who fancy New Age-ish Viking howling and admirers of multi-media experimentalist Matthew Barney.
03/26/06
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
[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
Practically guaranteed to sell more soundtracks than it does box office tickets.
09/16/05
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
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