River of Fundament

Feb 12, 2014

5h 10m

★ 5.9

Overview

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

Genres

Drama

Fantasy

River of Fundament Trailers

Cast

Norman III

Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle

Norman II

Milford Graves

Norman I

John Buffalo Mailer

Hathfertiti

Ellen Burstyn

Hathfertiti

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Hathfertiti

Madyn G. Coakly

Ptah-Nem-Hotep

Paul Giamatti

The Widow of Norman

Joan La Barbara

Usermare

Stephen Payne

The Ka of Norman / Isis

Aimee Mullins

The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers

Matthew Barney

Nephthys

Jennie Knaggs

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6.8

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6.2

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6.8

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0.0

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6.5

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