Good ol' Björk. Peculiar as ever.

A labor of Matthew Barney and Björk's love, Drawing Restraint 9, is Barney's first major film since his epic Cremaster Cycle. Commissioned by the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, the film enacts abstracted Japanese rituals aboard a whaling ship. Wrapped in fur kimonos, the couple performs a tea ceremony before cutting each other to pieces while liquid Vaseline floods the ship. The sharp, stylized cinematography, glacial pace, oozing liquids, and sexual metaphors are familiar from Cremaster, but Björk's quietly ethereal charisma mixes up the familiar, and her haunting score is used to great effect — particularly during the gory climax. (Flavorpill NYC)

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