Synopsis
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...
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Cast
- Richard SerraHiram Abiff
- Matthew BarneyThe Entered Apprentice
- Aimee MullinsThe Entered Novitiate / Oonagh MacCumhail
- Nesrin KaranouhGary Gilmore
- Peter Donald Badalamenti IIFionn MacCumhail
- The Mighty BiggsFingal
- Paul BradyCloud Club Maitre D'
- Terry GillespieCloud Club Barman
- James DrescherLead Singer - Murphy's Law
- Roger MiretLead Singer - Agnostic Front
Recommendations
- 90
Variety
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. - 80
The New York Times
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. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 75
New York Post
A tour de force that is weird, wacky and wonderful. - 63
New York Daily News
Barney's cinematic art inspires both awe and revulsion, often simultaneously. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
Few of its loosely linked vignettes have enough visual or emotional power to be very memorable. - 40
Village Voice
Offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment.
