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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.

On his deathbed in Vienna in 1918, artist Gustav Klimt revisits his life and his infatuation with women. Diffuse opaque fantasy on a real-life character that is most definitely not a biographical study, but more of a meditation on memory and inspiration.
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‘its visually sparkling style, which uses costume and set design as well as the cinematography (often bathed in a warm amber light) to create a very particular atmosphere that immediately reminds one of the works of Klimt.’
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Dir. Raul Ruiz, 2006, Austria/France/Germany/UK, 97 mins, Cert 18, Soda Pictures