Klimt (film)

Klimt is a 2006 Austrian arthouse biographical film about the life of the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt 18621918. It was written and directed by Raoul Ruiz, with an English screenplay adaptation by Gilbert Adair. The director of photography was Ricardo Aronovich, and the music was composed by Jorge Arriagada. The title role was played by John Malkovich and the cast included Stephen Dillane. Both a 130 minute long directors cut and a shortened producers cut of 96 minutes were shown at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.

The film was shown at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival where it was nominated for two awards, winning the Russian Film Clubs Federation Award.Philip French, in The Observer described the film as calculatedly enigmatic. Cosmo Landesman, in The Sunday Times, described the film as frigid and silly being unnecessarily difficult to follow in the style of Stanley Kubricks Eyes Wide Shut. ........

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