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Klimt

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Raoul Ruiz
Gilbert Adair (translation: English)
Herbert Vesely (idea)

Directed by: Raoul Ruiz

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 22, 2007
DVD: January 8, 2008

Running Time: 97 minutes, Color

Origin: Austria / France / Germany / UK

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Gunther Gillian, Paul Hilton, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane, Paul Hilton, and Karl Fischer

Gustav Klimt's eternal search for perfection, eroticism and love are examined in this film, which centers on his passion for Lea de Castro, his struggle for artistic freedom, and his life-long but platonic relationship with Emilie Floge. (Outsider Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Richard James Havis

The result is a pleasingly discursive film that depicts Klimt and the ideals and locales of fin de siecle Vienna.

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50

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Ruiz is so intent on harnessing the painter to his own -- here, rather arid -- relativism that he never manages to convey the unfettered eros that brings crowds flocking to exhibitions of Klimt’s work, even as critics hold their noses.

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50

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Klimt comes alive only fitfully at best, and it seems that for those occasional moments when it comes into focus there is an equal number that are merely silly.

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50

The New York Times Stephen Holden

The shortened version is lovely to look at, but the stilted dialogue and crude overdubbing in scenes where English is not spoken often make it an impenetrable hodgepodge.

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50

TV Guide Ken Fox

Raoul Ruiz's absurdly overwrought phantasmagoria tries to recast the notorious Viennese artist's life as a kind of Divine Comedy: Inferno.

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40

Variety Jay Weissberg

Billed as a phantasmagoria rather than a biopic, Klimt falls into the philosophical conundrum it attempts to resurrect -- whether portrait and allegory can coexist. Notwithstanding moments of great beauty, in this case the answer is clearly "no."

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Leba Hertz

A good bio of any historical character has to have a compelling story, whether evil or good. Klimt appears to have had that story. I sure would have liked to know what it was.

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