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Movie Info

Artist Eva Hesse utilizes latex, fiberglass and plastics to create pioneering sculptures in the 1960s.

Genre:

history, documentary, biography, drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Marcie Begleiter
Producer:

Marcie Begleiter, Karen S. Shapiro, Michael P. Aust
Writer:

Marcie Begleiter
Release Date (Theaters):

Apr 27, 2016 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Aug 20, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA):

$114.1K
Runtime:

1h 45m

Cast & Crew

Selma Blair
Eva Hesse
Voice

Bob Balaban
Wilhelm Hesse
Voice

Patrick Kennedy
Sol Lewitt
Voice

Julia-Maria Köhler
Eva Hesse
Voice

Werner Nekes

Ernst August Schepmann
Wilhelm Hesse
Voice

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Critic Reviews for Eva Hesse

All Critics (20) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (4)

Overstuffed with biographical details and taking-head interviews with friends and hangers-on, it's over-didactic and dull.

March 3, 2017 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

John Semley
Globe and Mail
"Eva Hesse" is a remarkable film about an even more remarkable artist, a woman who playfully and resolutely turned the world of sculpture inside out.

August 26, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Tom Long
Detroit News
Unique and satisfying ...

July 28, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

John Hartl
Seattle Times
Marcie Begleiter directed this warm documentary about the short, extraordinary life of the title artist, who died at age 34 of a brain tumor.

June 9, 2016 | Full Review…

Dmitry Samarov
Chicago Reader
A vibrant, affecting piece of filmmaking that's sure to widen Hesse's following.

May 12, 2016 | Full Review…

Sheri Linden
Los Angeles Times
Hesse's work has taken its place as a seminal part of 20th-century art, and this indispensable film will be shining a light on it, and her, for a long time to come.

May 12, 2016 | Full Review…

Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
The documentary immerses us in Hesse's inner monologue, lending great emotional depth and complexity to someone who was both very sensitive and very thoughtful.

February 4, 2020 | Full Review…

Benjamin Sutton
Hyperallergic
A full and compelling picture is painted of a major talent that the world lost far too soon.

August 28, 2018 | Rating: 3.3/5 | Full Review…

Andrew Parker
The Gate
See it for the girl but stay for the art.

September 15, 2017 | Full Review…

Neely Swanson
Easy Reader (California)
Aside from her laudable work ethos, Hesse never comes across as an interesting documentary subject.

August 25, 2016 | Full Review…

Sherilyn Connelly
SF Weekly
Moving, incisive... chronicles the short life and decade-long career of the German-American sculptor and denizen of the 1960s art world with impressive command of both the scene Hesse found herself in, as well as the methods that led to [her] artwork.

June 7, 2016 | Full Review…

Ray Pride
Newcity
It's a measure of Begleiter's documentary skills and her commitment to Hesse's work and vivid presence that such scant materials have resulted in a portrait that is so lively, intelligent, and moving.

June 3, 2016 | Full Review…

Amy Taubin
Artforum