![]() ![]() What makes it great: I D on’t F eel at H ome in T his W orld A nymore is the strangely titled but delightfully unpredictable story of a depressed loner frustrated with the world - “everyone is an asshole!” she says early on, in a fit of anger - who gets wrapped up in a strange, elaborate, and gory heist plot, entirely by accident, after her house is robbed. 16) I D on't F eel at H ome in T his W orld A nymore How to watch it: Manifesto is currently playing in limited theaters and will move to Amazon Prime later this year. But recited by Blanchett, performing as a puppeteer or a drunken punk in a dive bar, they become slightly ironic. ![]() Plenty of the manifestos in Manifesto would sound pretty pompous if you closed your eyes and just listened. The lines Blanchett speaks are taken from artist manifestos that informed the 20th century, with all but a snippet of Marx and Engels’s written by the artists themselves. More avant-garde art installation than film (in fact, before premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January, it was an art installation), Manifesto rewards the patient viewer with a mysterious, artful, often funny reflection on the swagger, idealism, and ironies that arise when artists talk about their own work. ![]() What makes it great: Manifesto stars the marvelous Cate Blanchett as 13 different characters - something she could probably pull off in her sleep - but there’s no real narrative.
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