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Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

2012

Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre

Documentary, Self: Marina Abramovic

7.3

1,293

Documentary This feature-length documentary film follows the famous serbian artist Marina Abramovic 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. For Marina, the best performance artist in the world, it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: 'But why is this art?

	Author	Review
United States	Walter Addiego SFGATE	"The film gives us a full sense of a personality and intelligence so riveting that we begin to comprehend why all those hundreds of thousands lined up at the MoMA."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Marina Abramović emerges from this arresting documentary as the Maria Callas of performance art. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Damon Wise Empire	"A little pretentious maybe, but then you've got to wonder at a woman who could sit motionless in a wooden chair, eight hours a day for three months."	POS
Canada	Murray Whyte Toronto Star	"So magnetic is she that if Abramovic had chosen to be a baker, or a janitor, you could still make a film about her and it would be only slightly less bombastic, and no less stirring."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A portrait of an artist whose life and work intertwine in ways even more compelling than might be imagined."	POS
United States	Robert Koehler Variety	"An intelligent overview that makes a radical artist's work comprehensible to audiences with no previous awareness of her or her chosen path."	POS

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