Critical Reception
The film's reception was fairly positive. It holds an approval rating of 67% at Rotten Tomatoes. Phil Hall of Wired says: "Few motion pictures have the power to jolt an audience with the fury, imagination, and artistic violence of Begotten." Susan Sontag called it "one of the 10 most important films of modern times." Makes "Eraserhead seem like Ernest Saves Christmas" – Time Magazine.
Begotten is currently banned in Singapore.
Read more about this topic: Begotten
Famous quotes containing the words critical and/or reception:
“Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)