Manifesto Reviews/Reactions
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Cate Blanchett
mysteryfan — 9 years ago(December 15, 2016 02:05 PM)
Here is a great review from Indiewire - Grade A
Cate Blanchett In Manifesto: Julian Rosefeldts Stunning Film Installation is a Masterclass in Performance Review
Blanchett's performance in Julian Rosefeldt's new project is the closest film may ever come to capturing the spirit of live theater.
Theres an old acting exercise wherein an actor plays the same text ten different ways as petulant child, scolding parent, scorned lover, and evil maniac stretching the actor and revealing undiscovered nuances in the text. Cate Blanchetts 13 performances in Manifesto, an immersive video installation by the artist Julian Rosefeldt currently making its American premiere at Park Avenue Armory, is the closest a film performance may ever come to capturing the spirit of live theater.
The film will screen as a 90-minute experimental feature at the Sundance Film Festival next month, but starts its life in New York in a very different form.
Like an actor in rehearsal, Blanchett is playful and inventive, surprising her scene partners and even herself. At their best and Blanchett is at hers here actors are vessels through which creativity flows uninhibited. In Manifesto, viewers have the rare chance to catch Blanchett in the flow, vibrating with the thrill of every actors illusive mistress: Discovery.
But to focus solely on Blanchett would do Manifesto a disservice. The project is that rare piece of art that uses a simple concept, executed beautifully, to communicate abstract ideas. Rosefeldt combines theater, film, and literature to create a remarkable meditation on the purpose of art. If it sounds heady, take heart its also pretty entertaining.
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mysteryfan — 9 years ago(December 15, 2016 02:09 PM)
Great Review from NYtimes
12 Faces of Cate Blanchett: A Chameleon in the Armory
If the art world gave out Oscars, Cate Blanchett should win for her tour de force of starring roles in Manifesto, at the Park Avenue Armory.
This toweringly ambitious, if occasionally pretentious film installation is the creation of Julian Rosefeldt, its writer, director and producer, a German artist drawn to complex narratives and fusions of real and cinematic space. His latest effort consists of 13 short films whose scripts are stitched together from nearly 50 manifestoes mostly by 20th-century artists, composers, architects and filmmakers. From Futurism to Pop Art and beyond, the writings layer knowledge, language and style into head-spinning densities. Some of these treatises were important turning points in art history; others are nearly forgotten.
As a work of art, Manifesto may conform too much to the current taste for art as public, big-budget spectacle, but it is carefully wrought, thought provoking, elucidating and, for the most part, quite enjoyable. You will have fun and learn something, too, not least about the will and myopia required to be an artist and that some manifestoes age much better than others.
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mysteryfan — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 06:28 AM)
Another one from Vulture. It is a little review/interview
If you need more proof that Cate Blanchett is one of Hollywood's greatest treasures, make a beeline for New York's Park Avenue Armory, where German artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto is on display until January 8. Over 12 giant movie screens playing ten-and-a-half-minute films simultaneously in the cavernous hall, Blanchett plays 13 characters, including a homeless man, a schoolteacher, a Mob widow, and a news anchor interviewing a weather reporter (she is also the reporter), all of whom are delivering some form of art manifesto. There's also one screen showing a burning fuse, over which the actress reads a mishmash prologue including Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. You can stand at certain spots in the room and see at least eight Cates at once. It's New York's Hottest Art Installation. Stefon would love it.
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http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/cate-blanchetts-amazing-13-character-video-art.html?mid=twitter_vulture