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Release date: Oct 7, 2011
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It's as if Akomfrah is trying to make mythological connections and undo or deny them at the same time - an alienating and misguided strategy. Jan 20, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It's as if Akomfrah is trying to make mythological connections and undo or deny them at the same time - an alienating and misguided strategy.
Tim Robey
Engaging and pregnant with ideas, although some of the juxtapositions work better than others. Jan 19, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Engaging and pregnant with ideas, although some of the juxtapositions work better than others.
Peter Bradshaw
Much of this is majestic. But a thought kept fidgeting in my head. Do we need quite so many dead white males singing the tragedies and trials of the black experience? Jan 19, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Much of this is majestic. But a thought kept fidgeting in my head. Do we need quite so many dead white males singing the tragedies and trials of the black experience?
Nigel Andrews
A fragmented but highly engrossing cinepoem on the related subjects of migration and exile, isolation and memory. Jan 17, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A fragmented but highly engrossing cinepoem on the related subjects of migration and exile, isolation and memory.
Geoff Andrew
Themes don't develop so much as they endlessly repeat, nor do they gain much through extended duration. It fails to engage either the intellect or the senses. Oct 5, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Themes don't develop so much as they endlessly repeat, nor do they gain much through extended duration. It fails to engage either the intellect or the senses.
Paul Brunick
The result is not without beauty, though at a certain point, one begins to notice that each new muse rather resembles the previous, a uniformity that restrains the film from true symphonic swell. Oct 4, 2011 | Full Review…
The result is not without beauty, though at a certain point, one begins to notice that each new muse rather resembles the previous, a uniformity that restrains the film from true symphonic swell.
Nick Pinkerton
Akomfrah's use of literary touchstones seems fresh, renewed and wholly comprehensible when combined with the archival images they accompany. Dec 12, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Akomfrah's use of literary touchstones seems fresh, renewed and wholly comprehensible when combined with the archival images they accompany.
Claire Ramtuhul
The Nine Muses is a beautiful, elegiac cinematic poem that demonstrates a highly inventive and singular approach to the treatment archive footage. Aug 27, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The Nine Muses is a beautiful, elegiac cinematic poem that demonstrates a highly inventive and singular approach to the treatment archive footage.
Isabel Stevens
A handsome, restful, thought-provoking film. Jan 22, 2012 | Full Review…
A handsome, restful, thought-provoking film.
Philip French
Spoken word, music and imagery come together to create moments of transcendent beauty. Wise and rather wonderful. Jan 17, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Spoken word, music and imagery come together to create moments of transcendent beauty. Wise and rather wonderful.
David Parkinson
More like a cinematic poem or art installation than a movie, this swirly collection of imagery - some new, some found - loosely traces the nine muses from Greek mythology. And it's for adventurous filmgoers only. Jan 12, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
More like a cinematic poem or art installation than a movie, this swirly collection of imagery - some new, some found - loosely traces the nine muses from Greek mythology. And it's for adventurous filmgoers only.
Rich Cline
It's a demanding, high-brow watch, yet ably conveys the rootlessness and dislocation of the immigrant experience. Jan 9, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's a demanding, high-brow watch, yet ably conveys the rootlessness and dislocation of the immigrant experience.
Tom Dawson
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