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  • 2002
  • Unrated
  • Glacier Field LLC
  • 3 h 2 m
  • 2002
  • Unrated
  • Glacier Field LLC
  • 3 h 2 m
Cremaster 3

Summary Matthew Barney's Cremaster series has taken on a legendary stature. This final piece in the 5-part cycle is the longest, densest and most complex -- filled with beautiful, mystifying images, many of them harkening back to themes the artist has already established. (Film Forum)

Directed By: Matthew Barney

Written By: Matthew Barney

  • 2002
  • Unrated
  • Glacier Field LLC
  • 3 h 2 m
  • 2002
  • Unrated
  • Glacier Field LLC
  • 3 h 2 m

Cremaster 3

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
67
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Summary Matthew Barney's Cremaster series has taken on a legendary stature. This final piece in the 5-part cycle is the longest, densest and most complex -- filled with beautiful, mystifying images, many of them harkening back to themes the artist has already established. (Film Forum)

Directed By: Matthew Barney

Written By: Matthew Barney

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90
Matthew Barney delivers his masterpiece in Cremaster 3, unquestionably the 35-year-old sculptor-performance artist-filmmaker's most linear, most narratively inclined work to date.
By Scott Foundas FULL REVIEW
80
Barney has been criticized as willfully esoteric, but if traditional meaning is once again elusive in this film, it remains an enthralling aesthetic experience, one that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing, baroque beauty.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
80
If Cremaster 3 is an innovative artwork that has been credited with breaking down the distance between sculpture and film, is it also a great movie? Probably yes.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
75
A tour de force that is weird, wacky and wonderful.
By Megan Lehmann FULL REVIEW
63
Barney's cinematic art inspires both awe and revulsion, often simultaneously.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Few of its loosely linked vignettes have enough visual or emotional power to be very memorable.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
40
Offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment.
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Production Company Glacier Field LLC
Release Date May 15, 2002
Duration 3 h 2 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.cremaster.net/crem3.htm
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