Review of Manifesto (2017) by Saul M — 28 May 2017

The definition of pretentious. Get to see Cate Blanchett give powerful narrations of various "manifestos" in 12 different characters. The first problem is the characters she plays and their situation except for rare moments are irrelevant to the Manifesto she's reciting. Her manifesto recitals are strong powerful, but not delivered in a way that's easy to follow. The setting, characters, situation and tone of delivery have NOTHING to do with the material being recited. Being that everything is disjointed, it takes a huge effort just to follow her recitals.

There is no story, plot or anything. Ok, it's an supposed art film and not conventional. But there are not concepts either.

The next to last thing we see on screen is the 12 characters all together in little boxes, talking over each other - that is what the film is - disjointed crap on top of each other.

Then we cut to one of the characters - the homeless man - talk to the audience about not judging the film - basically after 90 minutes of over the top super pretentious nonsense the film tells the audience who suffered through this not to judge it.

This can't even be enjoyed in a "it's so bad it's good way." it's so boring. But since I didn't get it I guess I'm not artsy or intellectual enough.