Cate Blanchett is a total chameleon as an actress. We first really got to see it when she played one of several Bob Dylans in Todd Haynes’ artsy take on the singer/songwriter’s life, I’m Not There. More recently, we got to see her in the trailer for a film called RED, created by Australian filmmaker, Del Kathryn Barton. Well, it seems that Blanchett is determined to keep it artsy and weird. Check out the trailer for the latest project in which she’s involved: Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto.
According to IndieWire, Blanchett plays 13 different roles performing various artistic manifestos. Some of her roles include a homeless person, a TV newscaster and a punk.” While a 90-minute linear version of the film will be screening at the Sundance Film Festival later this month, a 120-minute “exhibition cut” has been making the rounds as an art installation in Germany, Australia, and here in New York to mixed reviews.
In the exhibition, each of the segments in which Blanchett appears was playing all at the same time as you were permitted to walk around the space to watch them. TMS’ Keisha Hatchett said of the exhibition version as it appeared at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, “The filmmaker doesn’t even take the time to really interpret [the] words…just had Cate Blanchett yelling/whispering or saying shit in costume against the most pretentious background he could think of. Whoever wrote his press release and called it ‘groundbreaking’ should be fired, returned to school and be forced to study it in the dictionary until they learn the true meaning of that word.”
Dang. Maybe the linear version will be better? What do you think? I mean, besides the fact that Blanchett is likely the best part of this whole thing?
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