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  • 2006
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 12 m
  • 2006
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 12 m
Matthew Barney: No Restraint

Summary How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest art project? Barney plowed the waters off the coast of Nagasaki to film his massive endeavor, Drawing Restraint 9. The documentary Matthew Barney: No Restraint journeys to Japan with Barney a...

Directed By: Alison Chernick

Written By: Alison Chernick

  • 2006
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 12 m
  • 2006
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 12 m

Matthew Barney: No Restraint

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest art project? Barney plowed the waters off the coast of Nagasaki to film his massive endeavor, Drawing Restraint 9. The documentary Matthew Barney: No Restraint journeys to Japan with Barney a...

Directed By: Alison Chernick

Written By: Alison Chernick

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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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44% Positive
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11% Negative
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Maybe because I happen to be reading "Moby Dick" and was therefore more open to the wider world of whale metaphor, I found Chernick's view of Barney and his working entourage riveting.
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75
Chernick may not answer every question about this beguiling and enigmatic film, but you wouldn't want it to: Mystery is an essential part of the Barney experience.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
67
No Restraint misses a lot of opportunities, like the chance to contrast Barney's work with artists working on a lower budget, or to examine his positive and negative influence on modern art, or to break down an economic model based on selling off the pieces Barney discards along the way.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
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While not as balanced or fully satisfying as it should be, Matthew Barney: No Restraint will fit naturally as a pairing for future theatrical and DVD exposures of Barney's controversial works.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
60
Chernick's film traces the creation of Barney's "narrative sculpture" with open curiosity and an alert, amiable eye.
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50
Alison Chernick's film skims the surface of a strange and celebrated career. After a meager 72 minutes, the man who once stretched an obsession with testicles into a five-film cycle remains as unknowable as ever.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
38
As blandly lucid as Barney's is wildly and perplexingly imaginative.
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Production Company Agnès B., Love Streams Productions, Voyeur Films
Release Date Dec 20, 2006
Duration 1 h 12 m
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Website http://www.matthewbarneynorestraint.com/
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Awards

Los Angeles Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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