Zizek!

Zizek! (2005)

  • 62% of critics liked it
    (13 reviews)

  • 74% of users liked it
    (823 ratings)

Slavoj Zizek is that rarity, an internationally famous philosopher, and one who has built a career out of telling his audience things they probably don't want to hear. Embracing a world view that blends Marxism with the teachings of Jacques Lacan, Zizek's work obsesses on how capitalism affects the… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 9 min.
Directed By
Astra Taylor
Genres
Documentary, Special Interest
In Theaters
Nov 17, 2005 Limited
On DVD
Jul 25, 2006
Zeitgeist Films

Critic Reviews

  • Joshua Glenn, Boston Globe

    Zizek is a revolutionary playing a comedian playing a revolutionary. Which makes him worth watching, even in this movie.

  • Lou Lumenick, New York Post

    Americans might want to approach him first on the printed page rather than the hyperactive Zizek!

  • A.O. Scott, New York Times

    If you see only one documentary about a Slovene philosopher this year, it will most likely be Astra Taylor's brisk little film Zizek!

  • John Anderson, Newsday

    Taylor, making her first feature-length documentary, has the wits to capture the taut mind and disheveled lifestyle of a very funny man.

  • Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

    [Sings] to the smug choir of post-structuralist academia, who have so few movies made for their matinee satisfaction.

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    [font=Century Gothic]"Zizek!" is a mildly interesting documentary that follows Slavoj Zizek, a political philosopher, as he gives talks in New York, Boston, Argentina and his native turf of Slovenia where he holds down a day job as a university lecturer. His talks combine… More