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Tomatometer 4 Reviews 83% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings. Writer Norman Mailer reincarnates three times in three bodies by magically entering the womb of his wife. Reviews Cast & Crew...
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- Ellen Burstyn
- Matthew Barney
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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.
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...
Mar 4, 2014 · By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW. 40. The Hollywood Reporter. Feb 27, 2014. Overlong, willfully obscure and scatologically extreme, the film will elicit a variety of negative responses despite offering some individual elements that, on their own, would surely impress any of Barney's admirers.
In RIVER OF FUNDAMENT, spirits are depicted as crossing a large river of shit. If their souls are strong enough to conquer it, they will be reborn in the next life. John Buffalo Mailer, the son of American novelist Norman Mailer, appears in the film and takes this journey down the River of shit in honor of his father.
Feb 12, 2014 · But River of Fundament is not exactly a film. It draws on a series of site-specific performances and elaborate happenings—live actions related to the project date back as far as 2007—and all of them, however cinematically presented in the end, fit as sensibly within the traditions of theater and opera.
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