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Klimt [2007] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Raoul Ruiz Actors: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane, Saffron Burrows, Sandra Ceccarelli Studio: Soda Pictures Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £7.50 as of 24/11/2009 23:47 GMT details You Save: £12.49 (62%) New (11) Used (1) from £7.50 Seller: bigtrev151 Rating: 7 reviews Sales Rank: 22783 Format: PAL Languages: English (Unknown), German (Unknown), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 97 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060103790982 ASIN: B000WN56EA Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Release Date: December 3, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next » A misplaced artist January 4, 2008 Margus Lattik (Estonia, EU) 8 out of 12 found this review helpful For me, this film expressed perfectly that great artists who are misunderstood and unappreciated by many during their lifetime, will remain so also after their demise. Therefore the only point of making art is its value for the creator itself. Sure, the film mixes dream and reality without any prompting, and is thus somewhat hectic, or neurotic, if you like, but my guess is that this was the actual case with Klimt, too. In total, it is an exciting, a non-Europeanlike nor Hollywoodlike treatment of cinematographic medium by a Chilean director. Thumbs up. surreal squared November 3, 2009 J. Cartwright Some superlative acting makes this very complex film comprehensible. I bought it hoping to use it to illustrate the fallacy of artist's intention in teaching aesthetics - it's much too convoluted for that, but it is a provoking depiction of the life and times of Klimt. Since that's what it sets out to be, it's worth the while. A work of dedication that lacks sufficient structure March 24, 2008 H. A. James (Devon, United Kingdom) 10 out of 10 found this review helpful The movie is the product of enormous love and dedication on the part of the director, the production team and the actors. It is visually stunning and conjures up the appearance and atmosphere of Vienna at the end of the Nineteenth century with great fidelity. The costume design by Birgit Hutter is wonderful, and Ricardo Aronovich, the Director of Photography, creates a cinematic equivalent of Klimt's swirling, bejewelled paintings. br / br /The acting is convincing but there are discrepancies between the naturalistic style of the British actors like Saffron Burrows and Stephen Dillane, and the more expressionistic theatrical approach of the German, Austrian and other nationalities. John Malkovich's approach is different again, and although he greatly resembles the painter, Gustav Klimt, he does not seem to have effectively integrated himself into the whole. As far as resemblances are concerned, the prize goes to Nikolai Kinski as Egon Schiele, and if the director had decided to go all out for an Expressionist approach like Kinski's, the movie would have been a greater success. br / br /Its main problem, however, is that it lacks dramatic structure. It is dreamlike (and occasionally nightmarish) to a degree, but it remains structurally far too loose for its two-hour length. br / br /However, it is a visual treat and if you like the art of the Vienna Secession, it's well worth viewing. Lost Time July 29, 2008 Dr. R. Brandon (England) 2 out of 4 found this review helpful I bought this DVD after setting aside the reviews listed here as probably overdone, and after all this should be an 'artistic' film. Well, the other reviewers are correct, this is pretentious rubbish and no excuses that it is an 'art-house' film will disguise the fact. John Malkovich wanders through the film saying and doing little. You will learn nothing of the life of Gustav Klimt. The 'extra' of director Raoul Ruiz explaining his work simply serves to confirm your worst fears; he had no comprehensible plan or story in mind and just doodled from scene to scene. A complete waste of time. Klimt is a film to avoid unles you hate yourself. December 29, 2007 Isabella Balkert (Denmark) 9 out of 22 found this review helpful It is a waste of money, a waste of time and a total waste all together. br /The director or what ever sick lunatic dreamed up this nightmare of a film, finds it amusing to film great parts of the film as if you were looking at a carrussel, making you feel nauseated. br / br /Besides that you have a great many naked women, but they seem to be put there only to show naked women, hanging in curtain shaped swings or just walking about being as neurotic as the rest of the film. br / br /The story is so thin you don't know if there ever was one. Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next »

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