Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry offers an insider’s look at the artist and political dissident’s creative process and free-speech struggles; Ai so thoroughly upset China’s government, officials locked him down for 81 days. Meanwhile, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present provides a mesmerizing view of the performance daredevil and chronicles her career retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. There, Abramovic engaged in silent face-off with thousands in a demonstration of physical endurance and spiritual uplift. —C.L.
Grumpy Old Men
Last year’s festival was buzzing over ingénues, but this year was all about the grizzled vets. In Arbitrage, Richard Gere delivers a career-defining turn as a billionaire hedge-fund magnate attempting to unload his company
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry offers an insider’s look at the artist and political dissident’s creative process and free-speech struggles; Ai so thoroughly upset China’s government, officials locked him down for 81 days. Meanwhile, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present provides a mesmerizing view of the performance daredevil and chronicles her career retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. There, Abramovic engaged in silent face-off with thousands in a demonstration of physical endurance and spiritual uplift. —C.L.
Grumpy Old Men
Last year’s festival was buzzing over ingénues, but this year was all about the grizzled vets. In Arbitrage, Richard Gere delivers a career-defining turn as a billionaire hedge-fund magnate attempting to unload his company