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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. (imdb)
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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

2012
Documentary
1h 46m
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Rated 18 May 2014
81
87th
It is astonishing, more than ever aspiring, how art can be so not intellectual, so not about the mind, complex ideas or aspirations, and yet to not be simplistic or cheap.
Rated 12 Jul 2012
55
10th
Competent. I felt the summary of the artist's career was too "sketch-y", as in there was not much in depth exploration of her work. The profundity of her performances seemed forced and unconvincing.
Rated 10 Dec 2012
84
73rd
Brilliant story of the legendary artist, not the documentary but the content itself makes it very impressive and touchy
Rated 20 May 2018
65
61st
It's a cliche, but she is the one who coined it. Weirdly enough, by the second half I actually started to give a fuck. She is cardinally self indulgent, but the film is refreshingly casual and honest about it. She is just the shamanic diva the art world deserves, and secretly needs.
Rated 06 Aug 2013
92
89th
Marina is by far one of the most powerful artists in history just because of how potent and emotionally raw her performances are. I felt as though this film beautifully recorded a brief look into her history and truly conveyed the soul behind her art and this MoMA retrospective.
Rated 30 Jul 2014
50
43rd
Despite moments of interestingness, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that what is going on is a combination of an art industry that now operates largely through celebrity, hype and self-promotion, and a personality dominated by ambition, self-seriousness and a love of attention. The very generic form of documentary storytelling utilised by the filmmakers only serves to reinforce this conclusion. For this viewer, the appeal of a life of self-invention is better represented by Gilbert & George.
Rated 09 Jun 2016
30
0th
5 Juny 2016 - Pur egocentrisme, aquest personatge no em sembla que mostri cap rastre d'intel·ligència o sentit de l'humor. El documental la va seguint acríticament amb excés de dramatisme i com un gos falder.
Rated 26 Jun 2012
82
83rd
Inspiring and amazing, what a powerful woman. Her sitting in that chair was really impressive, I could look at her and the audience all day
Rated 01 Jan 2013
87
88th
Not sure whether to be moved or feel punked, I was fascinated by this account of performance artist Abramovic's unprecedented and triumphant retrospective at MoMA, during which she sat across from random visitors to the museum and looked into their eyes for as long as they wanted. Certainly one of my fav recent artist/art docs.
Rated 29 Dec 2013
95
97th
The most important movie you will see for quite some time.
Rated 28 Jan 2018
70
41st
More interesting as an indictment of a culture sick with pathological self-absorption than what was seemingly intended. I can't imagine feeling a stronger sense of contempt than what I felt for the vapid egomaniacs who cried because a famous artist acknowledged their existence. These are truly broken people, and it was fascinating and infuriating to watch them.
Rated 31 Jul 2012
80
81st
The content is truely amazing, the movie itself only fairly good.
Rated 07 Jun 2020
40
15th
First I should mention that I'm not part of the target audience as I have little love or understanding for modern art. Second, the documentary doesn't paint a satisfying picture of Marina Abramovic and her work. If you didn't get her before you wouldn't get her after watching it. It's a shame because there is a lot more to explore and illustrate rather than constantly iterating how taxing these hours upon hours of doing nothing are. In my opinion a lot of potential was wasted here.
Rated 10 Jun 2020
75
49th
I watched this in preparation for the Documentary Now! episode. In many ways, Abramovic's art is so out there that it defies parody, but the documentary made me appreciate the incredible lengths that she had to go to for her performance pieces. Bonus points for the hilarious James Franco diss by a random museum guest.

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