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River of Fundament

River of Fundament

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 12, 2014

Runtime

5h 10m

Genres

Drama, Fantasy

User Score

66%

Original Title

River of Fundament

Director

Matthew Barney

Budget

$5,000,000

Revenue

$44,840

Description

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.