Klimt
Drama, Romance
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2006
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A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
97 min
Release date:
3 Mar 2006
Country:
AT, FR, DE, GB
Languages:
English, French, German
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 4 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Imagining an artist's life as little more than a series of portentous set pieces, [director] Ruiz, who also wrote the script, has made a film that is neither portrait nor allegory but empty ornamentalism.
– Melissa Anderson,
Time Out New York,
12 Nov 2007
fresh:
John Malkovich has virtually cornered the market on portraying aesthetes in the thrall of demonic visions. Klimt adds to his gallery of elegant monsters.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
17 Oct 2007
rotten:
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.
– Leba Hertz,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Sep 2007
fresh:
Ruiz is terrific in evoking a heady atmosphere of ornate fin de siecle decadence, and Malkovich is ideally cast as a coolly intellectual, free-thinking, free-living aesthete...
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Aug 2007
rotten:
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.
– Ella Taylor,
L.A. Weekly,
30 Aug 2007