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Movie Info

Wild, eccentric characters observe great works of art.

Genre:

fantasy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Matthew Barney
Producer:

Matthew Barney, Barbara Gladstone
Release Date (Theaters):

Apr 25, 2003 wide
Box Office (Gross USA):

$514.6K
Runtime:

2h 58m
Production Co:

Glacier Field LLC
Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Cast & Crew

Richard Serra
Hiram Abiff

Matthew Barney
The Entered Apprentice

Aimee Mullins
The Entered Novitiate, Oonagh MacCumhail

Paul Brady
Cloud Club Maitre D'

Terry Gillespie
Cloud Club Barman

Mike Bocchetti
Grand Master

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Critic Reviews for Cremaster 3

All Critics (41) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (15)

Like poetry and music, it isn't so much what it means as how it means. The maze of the artist's endless, haunted hallways will keep you clueless, speechless and quite possibly sleepless, in the manner of all visionaries.

October 8, 2010 | Full Review…

Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
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February 3, 2004 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Jamie Russell
BBC.com
It is either an unparalleled opportunity to witness the work of an artist proclaimed by some the 'most important American artist of his generation.' Or an obligation to witness the work of the artist etc., etc.

August 1, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/4

Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
Trapped in a seat while the three-hour Cremaster 3 goes on (and on), you feel more like a prisoner than a participant.

July 24, 2003 | Rating: D | Full Review…

Tom Maurstad
Dallas Morning News
You might doze off from time to time, but what you see when you wake up has the potential to scar you for life.

July 16, 2003 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle
It's art of the highest order.

July 11, 2003 | Rating: 4/4

Sheila Farr
Seattle Times
May be the best combination of everything that Barney does best in this series: the striking visuals, a definite narrative, and enough variety to keep things interesting. The final sequence, "The Order," is as engaging as this series gets.

October 11, 2010 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…

Ian Buckwalter
DCist
Barney's outlandish mise-en-scne, forever emphasizing the organic, the amorphous, the massive, the adhesive, and the fluorescent in quite literal ways, also retains those very qualities in my memory.

May 19, 2010 | Rating: A | Full Review…

Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks
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December 6, 2005 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Film Threat
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August 14, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
the longest and last of 'the Cremaster Cycle' is also Barney's crowning masterpiece.

February 2, 2004 | Full Review…

Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette
Attempting to sum up the scope of Matthew Barney's epic in a few words is like trying to shove the history of existence through a scrotum-shaped pinhole.

January 14, 2004 | Full Review…

Anita Schmaltz
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

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Audience Reviews for Cremaster 3

Feb 07, 2007

My favourite Barney "film". I'm not a huge fan of the other ones, but this one is the first I saw. Quite memorable as a piece of art more than a "film", which I'm sure is how Barney intended.

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