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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.
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... a deeply unironic and mildly gross Blanchett showreel. Nov 29, 2017 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
... a deeply unironic and mildly gross Blanchett showreel.
Kevin Maher
After meeting the first few characters I was gripped by an overwhelming desire to nod off. Then I saw the light. Nov 24, 2017 | Full Review…
After meeting the first few characters I was gripped by an overwhelming desire to nod off. Then I saw the light.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
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. Nov 22, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
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.
Peter Bradshaw
Occasionally obscure, but bold and abrasive. Never fails to command attention. Nov 22, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Occasionally obscure, but bold and abrasive. Never fails to command attention.
Mark Allison
There's something increasingly mesmerising about Julian Rosefeldt's translation of his own 13-screen gallery piece to cinema. Nov 20, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
There's something increasingly mesmerising about Julian Rosefeldt's translation of his own 13-screen gallery piece to cinema.
Dave Calhoun
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. Jun 29, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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.
Linda Barnard
Blanchett has never been better, inhabiting a smorgasbord of personas, but Rosefeldt's curatorial ambitions belong in a gallery, not in cinemas. Feb 19, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Blanchett has never been better, inhabiting a smorgasbord of personas, but Rosefeldt's curatorial ambitions belong in a gallery, not in cinemas.
Rhys Handley
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. Jan 31, 2019 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
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.
Andrea Thompson
Rosefeldt explores cerebral engagement by going for the gut. Jan 24, 2019 | Full Review…
Rosefeldt explores cerebral engagement by going for the gut.
Tara Judah
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. Dec 3, 2018 | Full Review…
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.
Liza Batkin
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. Oct 4, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Tomas Trussow
It absolutely won me over. I liked it in seconds. Blanchett interprets a fetching cross-section of individuals. Sep 10, 2018 | Full Review…
It absolutely won me over. I liked it in seconds. Blanchett interprets a fetching cross-section of individuals.
Lisa Nesselson
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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