Klimt
Outsider Pictures | Release Date: June 22, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
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Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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The Hollywood ReporterRichard 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
50
L.A. WeeklyElla 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
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin 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
50
The New York TimesStephen 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
50
TV Guide MagazineKen 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
40
VarietyJay 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
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San Francisco ChronicleLeba 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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