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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: [It's] an eyeful. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Ruiz is terrific in evoking a heady atmosphere of ornate fin de siecle decadence, and Malkovich is ideally cast as a coolly intellectual, free-thinking, free-living aesthete... Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Ruiz is so intent on harnessing the painter to his own -- here, rather arid -- relativism that he never manages to convey the unfettered eros that brings crowds flocking to exhibitions of Klimt's work, even as critics hold their noses. Read more
Leba Hertz, San Francisco Chronicle: A good bio of any historical character has to have a compelling story, whether evil or good. Klimt appears to have had that story. I sure would have liked to know what it was. Read more
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: An easy-viewing intro to a racy episode in art history. Read more
Kamal Al-Solaylee, Globe and Mail: Whatever its flaws may be (and, frankly, they are legion), Raoul Ruiz's latest film is a biopic that mixes and matches visual and narrative styles boldly, wildly, madly enough to invigorate the genre, but not enough to save the movie. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Klimt comes across as a lovely but unfathomable object, and an inadvertent case study in the argument for the ultimate integrity of Klimt's art. Read more