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Gottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child

2012

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First Run Features | Release Date: November 23, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: Renown Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein takes on the contentious role of Production Designer for a never before seen opera about the Holocaust in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2010.

Director: Lisa Kirk Colburn and Lisa Kirk Puchner

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 70 min

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Variety

Ronnie Scheib

Nov 27, 2012

Colburn's focus is so single-mindedly laudatory that the whole collaborative process is reduced to people either helping or hindering the visiting genius. Read full review

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Slant Magazine

Abhimanyu Das

Nov 19, 2012

Much of the documentary plays like a moderately well produced but tediously uncritical making-of feature that could easily have been included on the opera's DVD release. Read full review

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Village Voice

Jonathan Kiefer

Nov 20, 2012

While the opera nonetheless soars with its acrobatic choreography of refugee displacement, this documentary about it suffers some dramatic slackness from the inevitable drawing board tedium of performance preparation. Read full review

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Time Out

Andrew Schenker

Nov 20, 2012

Helnwein's elaborate vision bumps up against practical concerns and meets with resistance - a conflict that this superficial portrait glosses over almost as much as it reduces Helnwein to simply being a determined, intransigent creative type. Read full review

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The New York Times

Nicolas Rapold

Nov 23, 2012

The backstage commentary circles around the bailiwick of a production designer and frustrations over Mr. Helnwein's literal interpretations. But they are rarely juicy or pursued in depth, and platitudes abound (with the exception of a matter-of-fact lighting designer named Bambi). Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter

Frank Scheck

Nov 27, 2012

The film never achieves any real depth in its unabashedly admiring portrait. What might have made a mildly interesting short feels vastly attenuated even with its brief 72-minute running time. Read full review

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New York Post

Kyle Smith

Nov 21, 2012

This infomercial for Helnwein's work as designer for an Israeli opera called "The Child Dreams" doesn't tell us a lot about how opera comes together, but it is accidentally revealing about its subject. Read full review

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