Paramount Classics | Release Date: June 8, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
13
Negative:
10
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20
Slow as a funeral dirge, the movie's all talk about art and passion and obsession without anything to show for it.
38
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
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.