| 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.
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.
Was Alma a masochist? Repressed? Neurotic? A pre-feminist? Don't look for insight here.
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.
The music is of course majestic, blending well with a loving cinematography.
Stiff but handsome film, there's little sense of the conflict and complexities that drove Alma Mahler.
Botches the chance to delve into the personality of a complex, alluring, and free-spirited woman.
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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