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Bride of the Wind

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Based on 26 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Marilyn Levy

Directed by: Bruce Beresford

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 8, 2001
DVD: November 13, 2001

Running Time: 99 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R

Starring Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce, and Vincent Perez

A romantic portrait of Alma Mahler, an extraordinary woman who inspired, bedeviled and captivated the artistic geniuses of her age. (Paramount Classics)

What The Critics Said

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

It's a movie of elegant surfaces, great background music (by both the Mahlers), gossipy underpinnings and pretensions to romantic grandeur.

63

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

The music is of course majestic, blending well with a loving cinematography.

63

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Botches the chance to delve into the personality of a complex, alluring, and free-spirited woman.

58

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

A rather dull movie.

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50

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

The stifling piety of this film -- which regards anything old and vaguely arty as next to sacred -- needs some serious airing out.

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50

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

She is known as one of the great muses, yet director Bruce Beresford, Wynter and screenwriter Marilyn Levy are never clear if this is by design or chance.

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50

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

There's great music and lovely settings, but the filmmakers have done little more with their subject than reiterate the Britannica's description of her.

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50

The New York Times Dana Stevens

For all the talk of artistic and amorous passion, the film is trapped in snobbish inertia; its idea of period drama amounts to a kind of highbrow name- dropping.

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50

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Was Alma a masochist? Repressed? Neurotic? A pre-feminist? Don't look for insight here.

50

Washington Post Philip Kennicott

It has moments of humor, some of them intentional, and it occasionally tugs at the heartstrings. Yet it ultimately makes real history feel ridiculously improbable.

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50

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Stiff but handsome film, there's little sense of the conflict and complexities that drove Alma Mahler.

40

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Mildly entertaining, offering generous swaths of Mahler performed by the Bratislava Philharmonic, but it's also inescapably ponderous.

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40

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

A standard-issue fin de siècle costume parade, simplifying every dramatic transaction to a torpid minimum but never answering its own looming "why": Why Alma?

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40

Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman

Somehow the film doesn't quite cohere; it's hobbled by its awkward exposition, with salient facts about the characters' lives.

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40

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The movie fails to make Alma a vivid presence -- She deserves better, and so do viewers.

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40

New York Magazine Peter Rainer

Beresford, can't bring this saga to life because Alma herself never fully comes to life; her contradictoriness, like the way she embraces Mahler only to rail against his "Jewish music," doesn't add up to a whole and complex human being.

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38

USA Today Staff [Not Credited]

Stuffing painters, writers and, naturally, Gustav Mahler (Jonathan Pryce) into about 90 minutes, the film comes off as little more than a handsomely mounted scorecard of sexual escapades.

30

Washington Post Desson Thomson

A fascinating premise. And yet, the movie, directed by Bruce Beresford, never quite blooms.

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30

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Ms. Wynter's performance is only one of many failings in a heavily accented costume drama that Bruce Beresford has directed turgidly from Marilyn Levy's amateurish script.

30

New Times (L.A.) Bill Gallo

Moviegoers might have preferred a little more care with the characters. As it is, Alma comes off not as a courageous trailblazer but as an indiscriminate adventuress.

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30

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Director Bruce Beresford -- not intending to be funny but succeeding wildly.

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25

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

A sodden ''feminist'' vulgarization.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Joshua Kosman

The only performer who breathes any life into the proceedings is Vincent Perez.

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20

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Slow as a funeral dirge, the movie's all talk about art and passion and obsession without anything to show for it.

20

Variety Robert Koehler

An odd case of filmmaking with a crystal-clear subject but no guiding dramatic premise.

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12

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The movie has three tones: overwrought, boring, laughable.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Sam G-Z gave it an 8:
I really enjoyed this movie because it sparked my interest in Alma Mahler. After learning more about her, however, I don't believe it had enough purposeful clarification of her character and point-of-view, only explanation of what happened to her. Still, I highly recommend it for the brilliant musical and visual atmosphere (captivating recreation of fin-de-siecle Vienna) and the effective portrayal of Alma's relationships with Mahler and Kokoschka.

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