Gottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child
First Run Features | Release Date: November 23, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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VarietyRonnie ScheibNov 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 MagazineAbhimanyu DasNov 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
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckNov 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
40
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldNov 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
40
Village VoiceJonathan KieferNov 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
40
Time OutAndrew SchenkerNov 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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New York PostKyle SmithNov 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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