SummaryThe new film by acclaimed artist and director Matthew Barney, creator of the Cremaster Cycle and the film opera River of Fundament, unfolds as a series of hunts in the wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains. The characters communicate a mythological narrative through dance, letting movement replace language as they pursue each other and their p... Read More
Directed By:Matthew Barney
Written By:Matthew Barney
Redoubt
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Nov 1, 2019
75
Matthew Barney re-instills nature with some of the mystic aura that modernity, with its technologies and techniques of knowledge, has robbed it of.
Jan 23, 2020
70
Redoubt is slow going but not uninvolving. Barney’s filmmaking is less about the manipulation of image, or the roiling power of editing to create emotional states, than it is about dutifully documenting what he’s created, what he’s seeing, what’s on his mind.
Oct 31, 2019
60
If it all made sense, would it still be art? Ironically, the trouble with Redoubt is that it’s not obtuse enough. It’s the first Barney film audiences won’t have trouble sleeping after — or through.
Oct 30, 2019
58
It seems as though the artist, all too aware of his reputation for both pageantry and shock value, has decided to offer nothing of the kind.
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