KLIMT (DOCUMENTARY) - DVD-POST-IMPRESSIONISTS

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• Release Year: 2006
• Genre: Biography, Drama
• Plot: A character study and a meditation on art in a time of opulence and syphilis. Gustave Klimt (1862-1918) lies in hospital, dying. In reveries, he recalls the early 1900s: it's fin de siècle Vienna. At the World Exposition in Paris, Klimt meets Georges Méliès, who does a moving picture for him, and Klimt falls under the spell of a woman who may be Lea de Castro. We see Klimt in his studio; we meet his mother and sister, who suffer from mental illness. We watch Klimt the libertine. On his deathbed and as a younger man, he imagines things as well: encounters with ministers and waiters and with women who are willing participants in his pleasures. Is this the source of art?
• Cast: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane
• Director: Raúl Ruiz
• Runtime: 131 min
• Media Format: movie