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Beuys

2017

Andres Veiel

Documentary, Self: Joseph Beuys

6.5

75

Documentary Thirty years after his death, Joseph Beuys feels like a visionary who was, and still is, ahead of his time. He was the first German artist to be given a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York whilst at home in Germany his work was often still derided as the "most expensive trash of all time".

	Author	Review
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] doesn’t do much more than scrape together bits and pieces of archive footage and photos into a cacophonous collage without a real structure and without a clear aim."	NEG
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Revolutionary artist Joseph Beuys needs a more structured and better focused documentary than Andres Veiel’s celebratory yet weak tribute."	NEG
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"[A] fascinating art documentary (...) a rangy, unconventional ride, one which touches on certain key Beuys legends (...) without fetishising them."	POS
United Kingdom	Ryan Gilbey The Guardian	"The higgledly-piggledy format of this archive-based film offers little reflection or analysis about the charismatic art joker (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Oleg Ivanov Slant	"This is just one of many examples of the film's idolatry of the man and his work and its complete dearth of critical analysis (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG

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