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Klimt

  • 20062006
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 2h 11m
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5.1/10
3.1K
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Klimt (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 nineteenth and early twentieth century.A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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3.1K
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    • Raúl Ruiz
    • Raúl Ruiz
    • Gilbert Adair(translation: English)
    • Herbert Vesely(idea)
  • Stars
    • John Malkovich
    • Veronica Ferres
    • Stephen Dillane
    • Raúl Ruiz
    • Raúl Ruiz
    • Gilbert Adair(translation: English)
    • Herbert Vesely(idea)
  • Stars
    • John Malkovich
    • Veronica Ferres
    • Stephen Dillane
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    • 49User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
    • 44Metascore
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    John Malkovich and Saffron Burrows in Klimt (2006)
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    John Malkovich
    John Malkovich
    • Klimt
    Veronica Ferres
    Veronica Ferres
    • Midi
    Stephen Dillane
    Stephen Dillane
    • Secretary
    Saffron Burrows
    Saffron Burrows
    • Lea de Castro
    Sandra Ceccarelli
    Sandra Ceccarelli
    • Serena Lederer
    Nikolai Kinski
    Nikolai Kinski
    • Egon Schiele
    Aglaia Szyszkowitz
    Aglaia Szyszkowitz
    • Mizzi
    Joachim Bißmeier
    Joachim Bißmeier
    • Hugo Moritz
    Ernst Stötzner
    • Minister Hartl
    Paul Hilton
    Paul Hilton
    • Duke Octave
    Annemarie Düringer
    Annemarie Düringer
    • Klimt's Mother
    Irina Wanka
    Irina Wanka
    • Berta Zuckerkandl
    Florentin Groll
    • Messerschmidt
    Miguel Herz-Kestranek
    Miguel Herz-Kestranek
    • Dr. Stein
    Marion Mitterhammer
    Marion Mitterhammer
    • Klimt's Sister
    Alexander Strobele
    • Bahr
    Georgia Reeve
    • Double Lea de Castro
    Rainer Friedrichsen
    • Double Klimt
      • Raúl Ruiz
      • Raúl Ruiz
      • Gilbert Adair(translation: English)
      • Herbert Vesely(idea)
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    • Trivia
      Ina-Alice Kopp's debut.
    • Goofs
      When Klimt mashes the cake in the man's face, the icing on the man's face is not covering his right eye. In the next close-up shot, there is a large blob of icing covering the man's right eye. In the next long shot when Klimt starts to wipe the man's face, the icing is no longer covering the man's right eye again.
    • Quotes

      Klimt: Who art thou Asked the guardian of the night From crystal purity I come Was my reply And great my thirst, Persephone Yet heeding thy decree I take to flight and turn, and turn again Forever right I spurn the pallid cypress tree Seek no refreshment at its sylvan spring but hasten on toward the rustling river of Mnemosyne Wherein I drink to sweet satiety And there, dipping my palms between The knots and loopings of its mazy stream I see again, as in a drowning swimmers dream All the strange sights I ever saw And even stranger sights no man has ever seen

    • Alternate versions
      A 131 minutes long Director's Cut was released theatrically in Austria and is available on DVD in the UK.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Ricardo Aronovich, avec mes yeux de dinosaure du cinéma (2011)

    User reviews49

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    9/10
    A really wonderful movie
    Judging from the reviews here you either love this movie or you absolutely hate it. I for one loved it. Being from Austria myself, you often get confronted with Schiele and Klimt - especially in Vienna, to a point where you're basically sick of it. Because of that I never got to fully appreciate these two artists until much later. This movie did help me to appreciate the artwork more. I was able to see this movie at the premiere in Austria when it came out and haven't seen it since then (though I would like to) and I had to think about it many times since then.

    I can imagine that the reason many people didn't like this movie was because it's not what they expected.

    If you want to see a straight forward, biographical accurate movie about the life of Gustav Klimt, then this movie isn't for you.

    The basic premise is that Gustav Klimt is lying on his death bed and in a manner of flashbacks you get to see random scenes about a fictitious story revolving around a mysterious woman. Blinded by the fever, the scenes appear surreal and deliver a feeling similar to what you may feel upon viewing Klimt's artwork.

    There's no straight plot following this movie and the real Klimt may not have been the way he appears in the movie, but that was never intended anyway. What this movie does is brilliantly deliver an atmosphere very fitting to the Wiener Moderne. The very important "Kaffeehaus Kultur" at the time, where intellectuals of Vienna spent the entire day in coffee houses is portrayed very precisely as well.

    I also think that Malkovich and Nikolai Kinski seem to be a near perfect cast for Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.

    Anyway, if you've read this review and get the feeling that this movie is not for you, then don't watch it. But if you're intrigued by what you've read then by all means, go see this movie!
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    • ExceptionalSunlight
    • Oct 14, 2009

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    • Release date
      • March 3, 2006 (Austria)
      • Austria
      • France
      • Germany
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • Official site (Austria)
      • Official site (United States)
      • English
      • German
      • French
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    • Filming locations
      • Baumgartner Höhe, Vienna, Austria
    • Production companies
      • Österreichisches Filminstitut
      • Filmfonds Wien
      • Eurimages
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    • 2 hours 11 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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