River of Fundament (2014)
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
- Released
- 2014-02-12
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
- Runtime
- 371 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Matthew Barney
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 from 20 votes
Cast
- Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle as Norman III
- Milford Graves as Norman II
- John Buffalo Mailer as Norman I
- Ellen Burstyn as Hathfertiti
- Maggie Gyllenhaal as Hathfertiti
- Madyn G. Coakly as Hathfertiti
- Paul Giamatti as Ptah-Nem-Hotep
- Joan La Barbara as The Widow of Norman
- Stephen Payne as Usermare
- Aimee Mullins as The Ka of Norman / Isis
- Matthew Barney as The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers
- Jennie Knaggs as Nephthys