70
Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
It’s an inspiring portrait of a truly feminist mode of art.
Yarn (Garn)
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- Netherlands,
- Cuba,
- Germany,
- Spain,
- Denmark,
- Poland,
- United Kingdom,
- Sweden,
- Iceland,
- Norway,
- United States
- 2016
- · 76m
Director
Una Lorenzen
Cast
Barbara Kingsolver,
Olek,
Tilde Björfors,
Tinna Thórudóttir Thorvaldsdóttir,
Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam,
Akira Blondo
Genre
Animation,
Documentary
Meet the artists redefining the tradition of knitting and crochet, bringing yarn out of the house and into the world. Reinventing our relationship with this colorful tradition, Yarn is a visually-striking look at the women making a creative stance while building one of modern art's hottest trends.
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What are critics saying?
70
The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
It isn’t perfect — it’s a little too airy and artsy in spots — but still, thread and string should be jealous.
70
Village Voice
The film offers fascinating insight into what yarn can do in the talented hands of those determined to elevate mere craft to high art.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Setting out to show the range of expression found in a field of craft it feels is too often dismissed as a trivial women's pastime, Una Lorenzen's Yarn showcases four artists doing things with crochet your spinster great-aunt probably never imagined.
70
Village Voice by Amy Brady
The film offers fascinating insight into what yarn can do in the talented hands of those determined to elevate mere craft to high art.
40
Variety by Dennis Harvey
It’s less than the sum of its attractive parts, with scant overall insight or weight. Like an old handmade sweater, this is a movie that might unravel too easily if you gave any single element a hard tug.
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