Fresh
Drawing Restraint 9 belongs to an endangered species of experimental film that walks the line between challenging and alienating its audience.
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
Overview
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
Director and cast
- Matthew Barney Director
- Shigeru Akahori as Barber
- Matthew Barney as Occidental Guest
- Björk as Occidental Guest
- Naomi Araki as Ama
- Mayumi Miyata as Sho Player
- Yoshio Harada as Flensing Desk Crew
- Shinya Kimura as Flensing Desk Crew
- Jun Naito as Flensing Desk Crew
- Takashi Nishina as Flensing Desk Crew
- Makoto Tanaka as Flensing Desk Crew
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
57%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Sitting through the film's tedious unfolding can be an interesting mental exercise.
Bob Townsend, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fresh
Like John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy, a surreal, vaguely plausible explanation of why two people are crazy about each other.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Rotten
Doesn't advance the Barney oeuvre an inch past where he left it with his massive, megalomaniacal opus known as the Cremaster series.
Philip Kennicott, Washington Post
Rotten
Moby ick.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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