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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow


The critical consensus

A personal universe that is compelling and visually astonishing.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 12/10/2010

An intriguing and compelling documentary that provides insight into Kiefer's artwork.

***(*)(*)David Parkinson, Empire Online, 11/10/2010

Near dialogue free, it’s more intent on submerging us (with weighty, esoteric calm) in welding, paint-smattering and glass-smashing than explaining what drove creator Anselm Kiefer to leave his native Germany and dedicate himself to it.

****(*)Carmen Gray, Total Film, 11/10/2010

Ah, I wanted to sigh: how much 21st-century German miserabilism will it take to make up for 20th-century German misery-making?

***(*)(*)Nigel Andrews, Financial Times, 13/10/2010

The tortured, lugubrious creations of the German artist Anselm Keifer (born 1945) are given a mesmerising showcase in Sophie Fiennes's documentary.

***(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 15/10/2010

The film’s commitment to letting these pieces stake their own claim on the attention is impressive, and yet – there’s no non-Philistine way to say this – the running time is almost twice what you ideally want it to be.

**(*)(*)(*)Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 14/10/2010

The images are eerily beautiful and the film as a whole is strangely hypnotic.

***(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 14/10/2010

The film does provide a surprisingly poetic picture of the inelegant process sometimes required to create beautiful things.

***(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 16/10/2010

A film to be watched, if at all, in a gallery, not a cinema.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent on Sunday, 17/10/2010

A remarkable film, though of rather specialist interest.

Philip French, The Observer, 17/10/2010


Features about Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Sophie Fiennes interview for Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Alastair Sooke, The Telegraph, 13/10/2010

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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