Cremaster 21999
Cremaster 2 (1999)
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Cast
as Harry Houdini
as Gary Gilmore
as Baby Fay La Foe
as Bessie Gilmore
as Frank Gilmore
as Nicole Baker
as Max Jensen
as Johnny Cash (with drums)
as Johnny Cash (with bees)
as Johnny Cash
as Two-Step Dancer
as Two-Step Dancer
as French Bulldog
Critic Reviews for Cremaster 2
All Critics (13) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (3)
Darkly powerful.
It is Gilmore's story and his family history, evoked symbolically, that give Cremaster 2 a solidity and emotional depth that are missing in the earlier, more playful installments.
A tantalizing melange of dreamlike riffs on the desolation of the American west, the empty poses of male ritual, and the blood lust of macho fetishism.
Barney defiantly makes expensive avant-garde movies that proudly flaunt both their extravagance and their obscurity, and while they're salient forays into notions of history and narrative to be sure, they're also sallies of the genius Artist writ large.
The narcotized self-satisfaction of [Cremaster 1] is, however, preferable to the narrative Cremaster 2 (1999), which, twice as long.
The most cohesive narrative in any of these films, following murderer Gary Gilmore (played by Barney) on his crime spree, conviction, & striking execution, juxtaposed with a Harry Houdini (played by Norman Mailer) subplot.
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