Basic
Info
Title:
Klimt
Genre:
Drama
Country:
Austria, France, Germany, United Kingdom
Language:
English, German, French
Running
time: 131 minutes
Release
date: 28 January 2006 (Rotterdam FF), 3 March
2006 (Austria)
Staff
Director:
Raúl Ruiz
Produced by: Matthew Justice, Arno Ortmair, Dieter
Pochlatko, Andreas Schmid
Screenplay: Gilbert Adair, Raúl Ruiz, Herbert
Vesely
Cinematography:
Ricardo Aronovich
Music:
Jorge Arriagada
Editor:
Valeria Sarmiento
Cast
John Malkovich as Gustav Klimt
Veronica Ferres as Emilie
"Midi" Floege
Stephen Dillane as Secretary
Saffron Burrows as Lea de Castro
Sandra Ceccarelli as Serena Lederer
Nikolai Kinski as Egon Schiele
Aglaia Szyszkowitz as Mizzi
Annemarie Düringer as Anna Finster
Klimt
Irina Wanka as Berta Zuckerkandl
Summary
"Klimt" is a 2006 Austrian biographical film about the life of the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. The film was written and directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz and starred John Malkovich as Gustav Klimt.
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| Gustav Klimt |
The film has both a 130-minute-long
director’s cut and a shortened 96-minute-long producer’s cut, and the two
versions were shown at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. A few months later, the
film was also shown at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival, where it was
nominated for two awards, winning the Russian Film Clubs Federation Award.
In this film, Gustav Klimt tells
his stories in mind when his friend Egon Schiele visits the hospital in Vienna,
where he lies dying of pneumonia. The film includes the platonic friendship
between Emilie Floege and Klimt, but much of it focuses on the relationship
between Klimt and Lea de Castro, a dancer introduced by the film's pioneer
Georges Méliès.
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| Emilie Flöge, Gustav Klimt (1902) |
Movie Review
“It's not movie about art
but an artwork itself”
“A really wonderful movie”
“KLIMT: An Evocation of a
Time, not a Biography”
“A beautiful work of art”
Interesting stories about the film
1. An English film
critic, Philip French described the film as "calculatedly enigmatic"
in an interview with The Observer.
2. An English
journalist, Cosmo Landesman, in an interview with The Sunday Times, described
the film as a “frigid and silly" being unnecessarily difficult to follow
in the style of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.
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| Film Eyes Wide Shut |
3. The “Rotten
Tomatoes” criticized “Klimt is handsomely filmed, but the blurred storyline and
substandard performances prove its undoing.”
4. On “Metacritic”,
the film received an average score of 44 out of 100 based on 7 critics.
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