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Critics Consensus: Laugh-out-loud humor and Cate Blanchett's tour de force performance(s) make Manifesto worth watching, even if the subject matter is too esoteric for all but a few.
Critic Consensus: Laugh-out-loud humor and Cate Blanchett's tour de force performance(s) make Manifesto worth watching, even if the subject matter is too esoteric for all but a few.
All Critics (80) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (19)
There is a hypnotic fascination to this work by artist and film-maker Julian Rosefeldt, one of the few commercial films that explores the boundaries between cinema and installation, or cinema and video art.
There's something increasingly mesmerising about Julian Rosefeldt's translation of his own 13-screen gallery piece to cinema.
You may not know much about 20th-century art manifestos, but you'll know what you like with Cate Blanchett's stunning turn as 13 wildly diverse characters who explore them in Manifesto.
A kind of monotony sets in, as if we're being compelled to hear the effusions of a bright adolescent in an endlessly defiant mood.
"Manifesto" isn't for everybody. But even if you're unfamiliar with Dada and couldn't care less about Fluxus, it's a treat to watch an actress at the top of her game ...
Some bits are less effective and/or more obscure, but few last long enough to wear out their welcome, thanks to writer-director Julian Rosefeldt's clever, complementary visuals and to his affectionate, interested approach - even when he's poking fun.
Blanchett has never been better, inhabiting a smorgasbord of personas, but Rosefeldt's curatorial ambitions belong in a gallery, not in cinemas.
This film is for the trendy freedom fighter who will rejoin his class once the fight for freedom is no longer in vogue. Some will love it, some will hate it, while others will just be baffled.
Rosefeldt explores cerebral engagement by going for the gut.
These text fragments become more like the cries of an adolescent visionary, perpetually misunderstood in a way that feels, while endearingly romantic, also presumptuous and privileged.
It largely works ... on the basis of how playfully it captures the manifesto's desire to collapse art and form (and the formation of an artistic revolution) into its own singularity.
It absolutely won me over. I liked it in seconds. Blanchett interprets a fetching cross-section of individuals.
Despite the striking visuals and Cate Blanchett's impressive surrender playing 13 different characters, what we see here must work a lot better as separated gallery pieces instead of put together, since the result is chaotic, confusing, self-indulgent and gets tiring real fast.
Super Reviewer
More of an extended art project than a movie. Blanchett appears to be having the time of her life here, delivering some really humorous moments.
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