Blanchett Does 12 Roles In “Manifesto”


A punk rocker. A Russian choreographer. A puppet-maker. A newscaster. Cate Blanchett takes on all these roles and eight more in this singular wonder bridging the gap between cinema and video art. (I saw it last December in NYC at the Armory.) In a series of 12 sketches, she portrays characters that act as a mouthpiece for quotations from an eclectic selection of critical texts – like, say, a kindergarten teacher lecturing a roomful of five-year-olds about the tenets of the Dogme 95. (It is as beautifully bizarre as it sounds.) It is by definition unlike anything else at the movies this year. Release date: May 10th.

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