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Shot in Nagasaki Bay on board the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru. The relationship between self-imposed resistance and creativity, a theme that symbolically tracks through the construction and transformation of a vast sculpture of liquid vaseline, called "The Field", which is molded, poured, bisected and reformed on the deck of the ship over the course of the film. Barriers hold form in place,... See Full Description
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Art/Foreign and Science Fiction/Fantasy |
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| Running Time: |
135 min. |
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| Release Date: |
March 29th, 2006 (NY/LA) |
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| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
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| Distributors: |
IFC Films
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$225,041 |
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| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade:
N/A
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bob Townsend
"Anything but restrained." Full Review...
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Boston Globe, Wesley Morris
"I was too busy watching them slice each other's legs off to notice whether one of mine was being pulled." Full Review...
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Chicago Tribune, Allison Benedikt
"...more than two hours and contains, at best, 10 lines of dialogue, an ear-piercing Bjork score and no discernible plot." Full Review...
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E! Online,
"...at 135 minutes, this overly long exercise in abstraction sinks under the weight of its Moby Dick-sized self-importance." Full Review...
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