Sean Penn and Madonna did it; so did J-Lo and Ben Affleck. For some couples, love and ego swell together in such a way that a cinematic collaboration is inevitable. Now it’s Matthew Barney and Bjork’s turn–and we’re happy to say that the results are stranger and more spectacular than anything Hollywood would turn out. Bjork supposedly swore she’d never act in another film after starring in Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark, but apparently her antipathy for that director was subsumed by a desire to work with her artist spouse. For his part, Barney put away the creepy latex get-ups from his five earlier Cremaster films, appearing in Drawing Restraint 9 as a basically unmodified and quite attractive male human. The plot, such as it is, could be summed up as “Barney-n-Bjork’s honeymoon on a Japanese whaling ship,” although the real point of the film, given the heavyweight status of this pair in their respective art and music worlds, is to allow yourself to get lost in the bizarre and gorgeous world they conjure. 612-375-7622; www.walkerart.org; for Lagoon Cinema dates see www.landmarktheatres.com
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