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San Francisco Chronicle by David Lewis
The unconventional Joseph Beuys, one of the pillars of the modern art movement, gets an unconventional tribute in Beuys, a zigzagging documentary that is both illuminating and opaque.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
Even if you don’t need Beuys justified or explained to you, the movie is an exhilarating portrait of a unique truth-teller.
50
RogerEbert.com by Matt Fagerholm
So vague is the picture about the meaning of the artworks it presents that they proved to be of little interest to me, until I researched them afterward. Far more compelling is Beuys himself, with his signature hat, haunted gaze and outspoken belief that art can be a vehicle for communication.
38
The film fails to seriously address Joseph Beuys voluntarily joining the Hitler Youth and serving with the Luftwaffe.
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Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
Andres Veiel's documentary Beuys, plays like a fan's flip book divorced from meaningful resonance.
75
Beuys isn’t a film that lays out, in simple, clear terms, what he and his work are about. But Veiel does manage to refresh our memories of Beuys, and let the man — in his own (subtitled) words, re-make the case that art is “a blow against the enemy,” a revolution.
80
Veiel’s refreshingly open-ended approach invites you to find your own answers.