Manifesto

Cate Blanchett puts on a tour de force, as well as 13 distinctly different personas--ranging from schoolteacher to socialite to newscaster to punk rocker to raging homeless man--as the characters recite from a string of disparate 20th-century manifestos on politics and art, from Marx/Engels to Oldenburg, Breton, Herzog, Jarmusch, and von Trier/Vinterburg, in writer/director Julian Rosefeldt’s challenging and compelling performance piece. 95 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.