REDOUBT opens Wednesday, October 30 at Film Forum
DIRECTED BY MATTHEW BARNEY
From the boundlessly fertile/febrile imagination of Matthew Barney, creator of the epic CREMASTER cycle. The title REDOUBT refers to natural fortifications that provide solace and/or American Redoubt, a far-right survivalists movement. The myth of Diana and Actaeon unfolds in Idaho’s majestic Sawtooth Mountains, with Diana played by real-life sharpshooter Anette Wachter. She’s accompanied by two nymphs on a wolf hunt (one, Eleanor Bauer, choreographed the film’s gravity-defying movements); Barney is the Engraver/forest ranger - stealthily etching their movements onto copper plates. Wordless physical action, choreography and spectacular cinematography create a dreamlike logic. “Mr. Barney’s most engrossing film in over a decade... speaks directly to contemporary American themes: the place of the gun, the fate of the environment and the fantasies and paranoias of those who turn their back on constitutional government and American society” (Jason Farago, The New York Times). Note: no animals were harmed in the making of the film.
USA 2019 134 MINS. GRASSHOPPER FILM