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The film offers fascinating insight into what yarn can do in the talented hands of those determined to elevate mere craft to high art.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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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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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.
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Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
It’s an inspiring portrait of a truly feminist mode of art.
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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.