Redoubt

Name: Redoubt
Released: October 30, 2019
Duration: 134 min
Rating: 69

2019

METASCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

No score yet

tbd

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

tbd	Your Score
tbd	User Score No score yet

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Movie Details & Credits

Grasshopper Films | Release Date: October 30, 2019 | NR

Summary: The 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 andThe 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 prey.… Expand

Director: Matthew Barney

Rating: NR

Runtime: 134 min

See All Details and Credits

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

Glenn Kenny

Oct 30, 2019

Redoubt reaches for intimations and apprehensions of the cosmic. Read full review

Matthew Singer

Mar 27, 2026

Inspired by true events, it’s a story of fruitless obsession that Werner Herzog must be kicking himself for not discovering first. Read full review

Pat Brown

Nov 1, 2019

Matthew Barney re-instills nature with some of the mystic aura that modernity, with its technologies and techniques of knowledge, has robbed it of. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jan 23, 2020

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. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Oct 31, 2019

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. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Oct 30, 2019

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. Read full review

SEE ALL 6 REVIEWS

User Score

Write a Review

tbd

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

No reviews yet.