Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2011)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
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Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 7
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Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 1
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Sophie Fiennes records Anselm Kiefer, as the 65-year-old world-renowned artist creates a spectacular architectonic landscape. "In 1993 (Kiefer) left his native Germany and settled in Barjac in France, where he bought a derelict silk factory, transforming it into an extraordinary artistic centre... at once the place where his paintings and sculptures are housed and displayed, and a colossal, evolving architectural artwork in itself. Fiennes begins by roaming through the tunnels and corridors of
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Klaus Dermutz
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Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer
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All Critics (36) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (7) | DVD (1)
"Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow" is that rare art documentary - one that places the art front and center, not as an adjunct to its maker's biography.
Top CriticA documentary that focuses rigorously on process and atmosphere at the expense of context and engagement.
Shot in widescreen CinemaScope, Fiennes' film is a mesmerizing spectacle that asserts its own pace...
Breathtaking imagery competes with a scary lack of human interest in this hypnotic, potentially alienating documentary about German sculptor Anselm Kiefer.
A daunting work that will please movie lovers willing to invest their time and intellect.
The camera movements are graceful, almost ethereal, yet the objects themselves - with their impastos of organic and inorganic materials, their metaphoric resonances, historical allusions and intimations of war - feel unmistakably weighty.
Despite its overall tone of cataclysm and condemnation, Kiefer's monstrous works sing more than they shriek. This is highly personal artwork writ in a grand, towering script, and all the more intellectually and artistically legible for it.
It's a mesmerizing experience and a must-see for anyone interested in the artistic aspects of filmmaking, as well as those who are interested in Kiefer's work.
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow provides a series of evocative but also elusive compositions, as well as some contemplations.
A slumberous bore.
It's a testament to how fascinating Kiefer's work is that the film is still enjoyable, if intermittently very dull.
Often boring, tedious and only fleetingly insightful.
an inviting exercise, outstaying its welcome at an exhaustive one hundred five minutes.
Art tourists [get] special access [to] Kiefer channeling creative and destructive energy of boys (mankind? male artists?) in intellectual context and fantastic, adult scale.
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow attempts to let Kiefer's art, and the process by which it's made, speak for itself.
Audience Reviews for Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
One of the most surprising things here is the element of danger that pervades Kiefer's working process. He and his assistants are shown working with all sorts of dusts and powders by the bucketful with no masks or protective gear in sight. Similarly, the scenes where they are all smashing huge plates of glass while Kiefer prances around in flip flops is unnerving, to say nothing of all the heavy lifting of material so heavy that it could easily crush and kill anyone should even a minor mishap occur.
The reward here is a rarefied tour of incredible art as it is being created and finished. Kiefer is clearly a hands on artist and his dedication is as praiseworthy as his amazing artwork.
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Foreign Titles
- Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (DE)
- Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (L'Herbe poussera sur vos villes) (CA)
