Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
Arthouse Films | Release Date: August 15, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
89
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovFeb 15, 2012
This is highly personal artwork writ in a grand, towering script, and all the more intellectually and artistically legible for it. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'HehirAug 12, 2011
If you're willing to take this voyage with Fiennes into the psychic landscape and working life of one of the world's greatest contemporary artists, it's a trip you'll never forget. Read full review
80
Boxoffice MagazineBarbara GoslawskiAug 10, 2011
Fiennes' technique is extraordinary in its simplicity, balancing a literal prowl throughout his immense sculptural environs with a respectful observational distance. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. MusettoAug 12, 2011
A daunting work that will please movie lovers willing to invest their time and intellect. Now I look forward to Fiennes' next project, a feature about Grace Jones. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMaggie LeeAug 13, 2011
For admirers of the artist and the open-minded, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow actually presents the ideal way of appreciating Kiefer's extraordinary work. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubAlison WillmoreAug 10, 2011
There's something admirable to this austerity and the way it insists viewers start by engaging with Kiefer's large-scale constructions, wordless explorations of which bookend the film. Read full review
60
NPRScott TobiasAug 12, 2011
A documentary that focuses rigorously on process and atmosphere at the expense of context and engagement. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 10, 2011
Breathtaking imagery competes with a scary lack of human interest in this hypnotic, potentially alienating documentary. Read full review
60
EmpireDavid ParkinsonAug 9, 2011
An intriguing and compelling documentary that provides insight into Kiefer's artwork. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisAug 9, 2011
The camera movements are graceful, almost ethereal, yet the objects themselves - with their impastos of organic and inorganic materials, their metaphoric resonances, historical allusions and intimations of war - feel unmistakably weighty. Read full review
60
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonAug 9, 2011
In equal parts mesmerizing and disorienting, Over Your Cities (the title comes from the biblical story of Lilith) plunges viewers into the earth, wind, and fire of Kiefer's massive-scale projects. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneAug 9, 2011
The extreme largesse of Anselm Kiefer's project, his radical certainties and devotion, all call for a more intrusive probing. Read full review
38
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAug 19, 2011
Beautifully shot, but terribly dull. Read full review
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