Fresh
A tantalizing melange of dreamlike riffs on the desolation of the American west, the empty poses of male ritual, and the blood lust of macho fetishism.
Ted Shen, Chicago Reader
Cremaster 2
1999 · 1h 19m · Unrated
Fantasy, Horror, Western
Directed by
Matthew Barney
Overview
CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1.
Director and cast
- Matthew Barney Director
- Norman Mailer as Harry Houdini
- Matthew Barney as Gary Gilmore
- Lauren Pine as Bessie Gilmore
- Scott Ewalt as Frank Gilmore
- Patty Griffin as Nicole Baker
- Michael Thompson as Max Jensen
- Dave Lombardo as Johnny Cash (With Drums)
- Bruce Steele as Johnny Cash (With Bees)
- Steve Tucker as Johnny Cash (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Darkly powerful.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
The narcotized self-satisfaction of [Cremaster 1] is, however, preferable to the narrative Cremaster 2 (1999), which, twice as long.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Fresh
Barney defiantly makes expensive avant-garde movies that proudly flaunt both their extravagance and their obscurity, and while they're salient forays into notions of history and narrative to be sure, they're also sallies of the genius Artist writ large.
Holly Willis, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
It is Gilmore's story and his family history, evoked symbolically, that give Cremaster 2 a solidity and emotional depth that are missing in the earlier, more playful installments.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
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