Klimt

Name: Klimt
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: June 22, 2007
Rating: 44

2007

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Outsider Pictures | Release Date: June 22, 2007

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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Richard James Havis

The result is a pleasingly discursive film that depicts Klimt and the ideals and locales of fin de siecle Vienna. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Raoul Ruiz's absurdly overwrought phantasmagoria tries to recast the notorious Viennese artist's life as a kind of Divine Comedy: Inferno. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The shortened version is lovely to look at, but the stilted dialogue and crude overdubbing in scenes where English is not spoken often make it an impenetrable hodgepodge. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Klimt comes alive only fitfully at best, and it seems that for those occasional moments when it comes into focus there is an equal number that are merely silly. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Ruiz is so intent on harnessing the painter to his own -- here, rather arid -- relativism that he never manages to convey the unfettered eros that brings crowds flocking to exhibitions of Klimt’s work, even as critics hold their noses. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Billed as a phantasmagoria rather than a biopic, Klimt falls into the philosophical conundrum it attempts to resurrect -- whether portrait and allegory can coexist. Notwithstanding moments of great beauty, in this case the answer is clearly "no." Read full review

Leba Hertz

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. Read full review

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