Drawing Restraint 9

Name: Drawing Restraint 9
Genre: Fantasy
Released: March 29, 2006
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Björk, Matthew Barney

2006

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IFC Films | Release Date: March 29, 2006

Starring: Björk, Matthew Barney

Summary: Drawing Restraint 9, a film by Matthew Barney with a soundtrack composed by Björk, represents the first creative collaboration of two of the most protean, dynamic forces in music and fine art. (IFC Films)

Director: Matthew Barney

Genre(s): Fantasy

Runtime: 135 min

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Bill White

While the significance of the imagery, including the slow disintegration of an immense piece of sculpted petroleum, is elusive, the strangeness of Barney's visual sense never fails to stimulate the senses. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

A gorgeous feature that's both passing strange and undeniably beautiful. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Songbird Bjork and artist hubby Matthew Barney team up in Drawing Restraint 9, and the spectacular result is exactly what should be expected from these one-of-a-kind creative oddballs. Read full review

Premiere Aaron Hillis

Looks, feels, and tastes like a more accessible evolution of "Cremaster," so try to gauge your own tolerance for indulgent eccentricity (at 135 minutes, it could stand to lose 20). Read full review

Ed Halter

Those who fear that the mainstream of contemporary art has become little more than an extension of fashion will find no comfort in Drawing Restraint 9, Matthew Barney's latest big-budget ejaculation of ritual self-involvement and superficial foofery. Read full review

Holly Willis

It's difficult to see the characters as anyone but Barney and Björk, and the film's binary system, opposing hard and soft, East and West, male and female, etc., feels clumsy and simplistic. That said, there's creepy delight in seeing American consumption carried to its logical extreme. Read full review

Kenneth Baker

Anyone who puts production gloss above performance, plot, dialogue and editing may thrill to Drawing Restraint 9. Read full review

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Dan

Apr 5, 2006

I find images from this film haunting me. If you let yourself just experience it and not focus so much on what it is about, you will find yourself transported.