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Drawing Restraint 9
Directed by
Matthew Barney
Not Rated
2005
2h 15m
Fantasy
6.5
60%
68%
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The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
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Cast of Drawing Restraint 9
Shigeru Akahori
Barber
Matthew Barney
Occidental Guest / Director / Writer / Producer
Björk
Occidental Guest
Naomi Araki
Ama
Mayumi Miyata
Sho Player
Yoshio Harada
Flensing Desk Crew
Shinya Kimura
Flensing Desk Crew
Jun Naito
Flensing Desk Crew
Takashi Nishina
Flensing Desk Crew
Makoto Tanaka
Flensing Desk Crew
Shunichi Yamaguchi
Flensing Desk Crew
Toshiaki Ozawa
Petrolatam Spirit
Shizue Yamamoto
Bathhouse Spirit
Drawing Restraint 9 Ratings & Reviews
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
Drawing Restraint 9 belongs to an endangered species of experimental film that walks the line between challenging and alienating its audience.
Boulder Weekly
Thomas Delapa
Offers no restraint on the writer/director's penchant for weird esoterica.
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
A refreshing break from mind-numbing Hollywood movies, but it may fail to win you over
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Leo Goldsmith
What is undeniable is that this, even more than Barney's previous work, is a film of outrageous, startling ingenuity and beauty.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Duane Dudek
It is a series of lyrical ambiguities filtered through the prism of Japanese religious and whaling cultures that defy literal interpretation even as they are sculpted into physical significance.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Throughout, Barney drowns the screen in arresting images ... that nail your eyes to the screen.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Townsend
Sitting through the film's tedious unfolding can be an interesting mental exercise.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Like John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy, a surreal, vaguely plausible explanation of why two people are crazy about each other.
Washington Post
Philip Kennicott
Doesn't advance the Barney oeuvre an inch past where he left it with his massive, megalomaniacal opus known as the Cremaster series.
San Francisco Chronicle
Kenneth Baker
Allegedly all these incidents connect symbolically in Barney's mind, but in the viewer's, they thud, inert and separate as stones.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The experience is at times taxing, but the imagery ... is undeniably arresting and sticky.
Chicago Reader
Fred Camper
An overblown home movie with almost no dialogue.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Slow and repetitive, the film might be worth a few minutes of attention when encountered on a video screen in a museum display, but at 135 minutes it doesn't provide much reward for a viewer's rapt attention.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
It's hard to shake the sense that there's less here than meets the eye, but what meets the eye burns with a rare intensity.
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
As visually stunning as it is, DR9 is also more than two hours and contains, at best, 10 lines of dialogue, an ear-piercing Bjork score and no discernible plot.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Matthew Barney's visually spellbinding film is a work that might be described as the artist's Moby-Dick.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
As magical as DR9 may be, it isn't for everyone. Devotees of Bjork and Barney will think they're in heaven, while Mr. and Ms. Cineplex will be reminded of a much warmer place.
Village Voice
Ed Halter
An unsatisfying marriage of excessive production values with insipid cinematography and flat-footed editing.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Like Björk's Medulla%u2014a heady, not-entirely terrible piece of experimental pop music just short of unlistenable%u2014Drawing Restraint 9 is beautiful, maddeningly indigestible, and impossible to resist.
Variety
Leslie Felperin
A tapestry of sensuous, striking and sometimes disturbing imagery, Drawing Restraint 9 marks the latest cinematic visit to the wacky world of experimental artist Matthew Barney.
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