Klimt 2006

Critics score:
32 / 100

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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: [It's] an eyeful. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: 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... Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: 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. Read more

Leba Hertz, San Francisco Chronicle: 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. Read more

Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: An easy-viewing intro to a racy episode in art history. Read more

Kamal Al-Solaylee, Globe and Mail: 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. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: 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. Read more

Hank Sartin, Time Out: Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: It's not unintriguing, but without anything resembling a dramatic progression, the going soon gets stodgy. Read more

Jay Weissberg, Variety: Klimt falls into the philosophical conundrum it attempts to resurrect -- whether portrait and allegory can coexist. Read more