A lavish, old-fashioned biopic about Alma Schindler (Sarah Wynter), the muse of composer Gustav Mahler (Jonathan Pryce), painter Oskar Kokoschka (Vincent Perez), Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius (Simon Verhoeven) and writer Franz Werfel (Gregor Seberg), as well as the friend (and sometimes more) of a dazzling cross-section of Viennese artists, including painter Gustav Klimt (August Schmölzer). Directed by Bruce Beresford from a script by Marilyn Levy, this handsome film deals with some 20 years of Alma's life, beginning in 1901, when she met Mahler, and ending in the early years of her third and last marriage, to Werfel. Born in 1879, the daughter of a landscape...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
99 mins