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Mahler

Mahler

1974
Drama, Biography
1h 55m
The story is then recounted in a series of flashbacks, taking one through Mahler's turbulent childhood, his brother's suicide, his experience with anti-semitism, his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, and his marital problems.
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Mahler

1974
Drama, Biography
1h 55m
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Rated 12 Jun 2013
70
57th
Too wonderfully mad and weird to be completely dismissed as just a failure. Though it certainly looks like one. I might revisit this at another time.
Rated 10 Nov 2017
73
56th
Has some great scenes (the opening shot is classic Russell, and the conversion sequence is a hoot), but overall it felt a little tepid. The childhood scenes flat-out bored me.
Rated 25 Oct 2015
70
46th
A film more focal on symbolism than anything else, it was a weirder ride than expected
Rated 11 Feb 2014
82
70th
Not always focused, but this is a brilliantly revealing bio of the title character, that fills in the details via flashbacks and the numerous far-out fantasy sequences. Loads of fun, and Mahler is presented almost differently in each flashback (as well as in the main narrative) by the excellently dry and often cynical performance from Powell.
Rated 05 Nov 2016
59
78th
Fanciful portrait of a guy who was a huge dick, while simultaneously a musical genius. Experimental biopic akin to those of Jarman [I realize Jarman was a colleague, and doubtless in turn inspired originally by Russell], for example, but, like all KR, this is unmistakably and flamboyantly a -Russell- movie, and is accordingly wildly funny and beautifully composed, photographed, and edited. The ending, while not without a certain ambiguity, seemed to me false.
Rated 03 Jul 2010
91
96th
By no means your standard bio-pic...almost anyone can do that. This is one of the only movies I've seen about a creative artist that really evokes something palpable about as intangible a thing as the creative process. An amazing accomplishment, and worth seeing for that alone. That, and the lead-in to the 4th Symphony. And the 30-second spoof of Visconti's "Death in Venice".
Rated 12 Jun 2023
7
52nd
Beautiful, barmy and borderline perfect. I didn't quite get into the swing of it while watching, but it was hard not to admire its audacity and creativity. Russell doesn't always hit, but he always swings in a way you wouldn't expect. This time it didn't connect.
Rated 28 Aug 2023
50
48th
The whole conversion scene with Cosima Wagner playing a Nazi Valkyrie while Mahler is a series of Jewish stereotypes might be more insane than anything in The Devils.

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