Bride of the Wind
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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58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
A rather dull movie. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
The stifling piety of this film -- which regards anything old and vaguely arty as next to sacred -- needs some serious airing out. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyChuck 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. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack 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. Read full review
50
The New York TimesDana 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. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Was Alma a masochist? Repressed? Neurotic? A pre-feminist? Don't look for insight here.
50
Washington PostPhilip 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. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Stiff but handsome film, there's little sense of the conflict and complexities that drove Alma Mahler.
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)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. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
Somehow the film doesn't quite cohere; it's hobbled by its awkward exposition, with salient facts about the characters' lives. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The movie fails to make Alma a vivid presence -- She deserves better, and so do viewers. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMichael 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? Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Mildly entertaining, offering generous swaths of Mahler performed by the Bratislava Philharmonic, but it's also inescapably ponderous. Read full review
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