Klimt



Friday, July 18th, 8:00 pm

Klimt

(Raoul Ruiz, Austria/France/Germany 2006, 97 min.)

John Malkovich stars as the famed Austrian artist whose sexually aware and erotically inspired work came to symbolize the art nouveau movement of the late 19th and early 20th century. Told in a series of visions from Klimt’s deathbed, the story veers back and forth between past and present, fantasy and reality, chronicling his battles for artistic freedom, his passions for various women, and his influential meeting with cinema pioneer Georges Méliès.