Klimt (film)
Klimt is a film drama from 2006 by director and screenwriter Raúl Ruiz about the Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt .
The film has existed in two versions right from the start, both of which were shown when it was screened at the Berlinale 2006: a 98-minute studio version and a 131-minute director's cut. However, only the shortened version got into the worldwide theatrical release, and the home video versions released in 2006 initially only contained this version. It wasn't until 2007 that a limited 2-disc special edition DVD with the longer Director's Cut was released in Germany.
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Gustav Klimt lies on his deathbed and is drawn by his friend and student Egon Schiele . In a maddened fever, the painter fantasizes about his life and the scandals that have arisen around himself and his pictures. This does not happen in a biographically correct description, but by means of interior views and dream images of Klimt, which express his free spirit.
The pictures of his colleagues and confidants and, for example, the beginning of film art are reflected in this psychogram about Vienna at the turn of the century. The distanced, open relationship with Emilie Flöge is discussed as well as the painter's numerous affairs, his friendly relationship with Egon Schiele and his arguments with the Vienna Secession . Klimt's extravagant and sometimes fascinating life between Paris and Vienna , his conflicts with Viennese society and his scandals are aptly expressed. The film is like a picture frame of his drawings. He shows existence in erotic images and philosophical discussions in which Klimt strolls through his life and lets himself be delighted by the muses of his images. The film is less a portrait than an allegory .
criticism
“The Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz did not shoot a biography of the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, but rather a phantasmagoria that is reminiscent of Arthur Schnitzler's dreamed up novels: mirror images of enigmatic, blurred beauty from decadent Vienna before the First World War. On the death camp in the hospital in the midst of war disabled soldiers, scenes from Klimt's life appear in the redeeming consciousness of the artist [...], erotic motifs as well as academic disputes. A feast for the eyes with a splendid display of colors and ornaments that do without any narrative logic. "
“For his biography Klimt , told from the artist's deathbed, Raoúl Ruiz decided very vehemently in favor of the protagonist's leaps of thought - with the effect that something beautiful to look at but completely incoherent in terms of content was created; the Americans have already borrowed the word 'Bilderbogen' from German for this. Many a scene is as if set up on the precious mosaic ground of Gustav Klimt's Art Nouveau paintings. "
“Raoúl Ruiz, an intellectual of the cinema, apparently had a fantasy of decadence in mind with Klimt , a study of the turn from the 19th to the 20th century, when not only language became moldy, but also images began to melt away. […] Politics is also included, because Klimt repeatedly comes across a 'secretary' who first works for the Austrian embassy in Paris and later for the Ministry of Finance in Vienna. This ephemeral personality stands for the intrusiveness of the Austrian state as well as for its phantasmatic inaccessibility. […] John Malkovich also seems to be guided by the image of sexuality from Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut - where everything is allegory, fun falls by the wayside. "
Award
- In 2007 the film was given the title “Valuable” by the FBW .
Web links
- Klimt at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Klimt in the Lexicon of International Films
- Klimt at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Klimt . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 111 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Klimt . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Klimt In: Der Spiegel , issue 21/2006 of May 22, 2006
- ↑ A picture sheet in which the women and the cakes weighed In: Berliner Zeitung of May 24, 2006
- ↑ The Ornamentalist in Delirium In: The daily newspaper of May 24, 2006
- ↑ Klimt at filmportal.de