| Paramount Classics | Release Date: June 8, 2001 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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3
Mixed:
13
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews
It's a movie of elegant surfaces, great background music (by both the Mahlers), gossipy underpinnings and pretensions to romantic grandeur.
The music is of course majestic, blending well with a loving cinematography.
Botches the chance to delve into the personality of a complex, alluring, and free-spirited woman.
Was Alma a masochist? Repressed? Neurotic? A pre-feminist? Don't look for insight here.
Stiff but handsome film, there's little sense of the conflict and complexities that drove Alma Mahler.
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.
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.
Slow as a funeral dirge, the movie's all talk about art and passion and obsession without anything to show for it.
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