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Writer Norman Mailer reincarnates three times in three bodies by magically entering the womb of his wife. TOP CRITIC. By the end of the piece I felt deliberately alienated, and to a nearly ...
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- Matthew Barney
- Drama
- Ellen Burstyn
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Anton Bitel Projected Figures. Though certainly challenging in its exuberant obscurity, its forbidding length and its transgressive offence, River...
Shown in the suitably opulent surroundings of the London Coliseum by the ENO, which has undertaken screenings since its loss of public funding, River of Fundament is the rarest of beasts: a phantasmagorical opera on film, dense with recondite knowledge and mythic horrors, that cost millions of dollars to make.
Feb 12, 2014 · Taking the American landscape as its backdrop, the film River Of Fundament is an epic story of regeneration and rebirth, set in three major American cities—Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York.
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- Dave Bald Eagle
- Matthew Barney
Sep 26, 2015 · The exhausting wreckage and smashed residue of modern life, especially as it unfolded in 20th century industrial America, is one key to “River of Fundament,” the gaudy three-act movie and...
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- Art Critic
In 2007, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler began a new collaborative project inspired by American author Norman Mailer's 1983 novel Ancient Evenings, set in pharaonic Egypt. The project was conceived as a nontraditional opera wit...
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Feb 17, 2014 · River of Fundament: Film Review. Artist Matthew Barney makes the spirit of Norman Mailer the star of a six-hour, excrement-filled mythological journey. By THR Staff.
