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- Summary: 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)
- Director: Raoul Ruiz
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama
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Positive: 1 out of 7
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Mixed: 5 out of 7
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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70The result is a pleasingly discursive film that depicts Klimt and the ideals and locales of fin de siecle Vienna.
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50Raoul 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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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.
