Cremaster 5
- Original title
- The Cremaster Cycle: Cremaster 5
- Year
- 1997
- Running time
- 55 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Ursula Andress
- Matthew Barney
- Joanne Rha
- Susan Rha
- AMy Chiang
- Mei-Chiao Chiu
- Michelle Ingkavet
- Yoko Kuroiwa
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Musical | Experimental Cinema. Surrealism. Half-length Film. Independent Film (US)
- Movie Groups
- The Cremaster Cycle
- Synopsis
- The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney, entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5 which create a self-enclosed aesthetic system. The conceptual departure point for the cycle is the male cremaster muscle, and the films are filled with anatomical allusions to reproductive organs and the process of sexual differentiation.
When total descension is finally attained in CREMASTER 5 (1997), it is envisioned as a tragic love story set in the romantic dreamscape of late-nineteenth-Century Budapest. The film is cast in the shape of a lyric opera. Biological metaphors shifted form to inhabit emotional states - longing and despair - that become musical leitmotivs in the orchestral score. The opera's primary characters - the Queen of Chain (played by Ursula Andress) and her Diva, Magician, and Giant (all played by Barney) - enact collectively the final release promised by the project as a whole.- Movie Soulmates' ratings
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