Redoubt

I wondered how much really was being said, in the end, but Barney has a bold and distinctive style.

"Redoubt" is slow going but not uninvolving.

Barney's best work has occasionally pulled off the feat of being enthralling and ridiculous at the same time, though Redoubt sometimes ends up being merely the latter.

Matthew Barney re-instills nature with some of the mystic aura that modernity, with its technologies and techniques of knowledge, has robbed it of.

"Redoubt" reaches for intimations and apprehensions of the cosmic.

An art-film riff on "The Revenant," patiently paced, but hardly tedious...

Redoubt is undoubtedly a continuation of Barney's unique modern day myth-making process. And its hypnotic images have to be experienced on the big screen.

The trouble with this film, at least from a cinematic perspective, is that it doesn't really grip. It's alluring, it's beguiling, but like Diana herself, it has no intention of going any further.