131 min
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Writers: Raoul Ruiz, Gilbert Adair (translation: English)
Stars: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (Malkovich) whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Klimt's life-story unfolds in the artist's mind as he lies dying of pneumonia in a Viennese hospital where he is visited by his friend, Egon Schiele (Nikolai Kinski). Themes within the film include Klimt's platonic friendship with Emilie Floege (Veronica Ferres). Much of the film is centred on Klimt's relationship with Lea de Castro (Saffron Burrows), a dancer to whom he is introduced by the film pioneer Georges Méliès.(Wikipedia)
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