Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Klimt (2006)



Austrian artist Gustav Klimt last thoughts and dreams while in his deathbed.

Despite production value and and some good performances this is a messy and pretentious effort to make a surrealist statement about art at the turn of the century.

Maltin*1/2: "Gorgeous but faux-artsy biopic...Pretentious, factually questionable, and annoyingly hallucinatory, elevated only by the luminous paintings and abundant nudity. A somnolent Malkovich makes not the slightest effort to sound anything but pure Illinoisan."


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