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Klimt (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 24 Fresh: 7  Rotten:17 Average Rating: 5/10
 
Consensus: Klimt is handsomely filmed, but the blurred storyline and substandard performances prove its undoing.
 

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Rated: 15

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Theatrical Release: 01-06-2007

Synopsis: Popular Austrian painter Gustav Klimt is portrayed by John Malkovich in this dramatic biopic by director Raoul Ruiz. Popular Austrian painter Gustav Klimt is portrayed by John Malkovich in this dramatic biopic by director Raoul Ruiz. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane, Paul Hilton

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Screenwriter: Raoul Ruiz
Producer: Deiter Pochlakto
Composer: Jorge Arriagada

DVD Info

Release:

Aug 1, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.78

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, German
  • Subtitles - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Featurette - Making Of
  • Trailer - Original Theatrical Trailer

Reviews

 
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2/5

The whole dream-like effect the film strives for is undermined by the poor acting.

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06/09/07
Cosmo Landesman
Times [UK]
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2/5

Saffron Burrows is a stand-out as a provocative actress (and very possibly her mischievous lookalike), but it's not enough to make the muddled plot engaging, or fit for comparison with Klimt's stunning work.

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06/05/07
Anna Smith
BBC
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2/5

A beautifully designed but ponderously executed attempt to summon up the spirit of the Austrian fin-de-siècle painter.

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06/02/07
Andrew Pulver
Guardian [UK]
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It’s not unintriguing, but without anything resembling a dramatic progression, the going soon gets stodgy.

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05/31/07
Trevor Johnston
Time Out
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C

Poor excuse for an unconventional biopic.

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02/23/08
Dennis Schwartz
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2/6

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.

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11/12/07
Melissa Anderson
Time Out New York
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2/4

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

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10/19/07
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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The film, however provocative and full of eye candy, is really for hardcore art-house fans only.

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10/19/07
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International
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3.5/5

John Malkovich has virtually cornered the market on portraying aesthetes in the thrall of demonic visions. Klimt adds to his gallery of elegant monsters.

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10/17/07
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Klimt is a feast for the eyes and the mind.

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10/17/07
Beverly Berning
culturevulture.net
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1/4

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.

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09/14/07
Leba Hertz
San Francisco Chronicle
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2.5/5

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...

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08/31/07
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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2.5/4

Klimt is obviously not a dumb film, but it is one big ol' fruitcake of a movie.

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08/31/07
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News
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2/5

Fact, fiction and chronology are juggled and blurred with such abandon that piecing it all together is bound to be a fruitless and frustrating effort.

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08/31/07
Wade Major
Boxoffice Magazine
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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.

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08/30/07
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly
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[It's] an eyeful.

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08/30/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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2.5/4

Klimt comes across as a lovely but unfathomable object, and an inadvertent case study in the argument for the ultimate integrity of Klimt's art.

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08/10/07
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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2.5/5

In the end, all the effort adds up to naught, except a hunger for the salient details the movie missed.

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08/10/07
Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies
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2.5/4

Whatever its flaws may be (and, frankly, they are legion), Raoul Ruiz's latest film is a biopic that mixes and matches visual and narrative styles boldly, wildly, madly enough to invigorate the genre, but not enough to save the movie.

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08/10/07
Kamal Al-Solaylee
Globe and Mail
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An almost unbearable collection of monologues with no regard for substantive or involving dialogue, the film sheds little or no light on the genius behind some extraordinary artwork.

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08/10/07
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca
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