An ageless (over a period of two decades) Alma Mahler, née Schindler, and her constellation of artsy swains: the composer Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius, the painter Oskar Kokoschka, the writer Franz Werfel. The viewer is expected to swoon at the headiness of it all: the name-dropping ("Strauss loved it. He congratulated me over and over"), the celebrity eavesdropping ("You have crushed my spirit, Gustav," his wife explodes. "I hate you and your Jewish music!"). Or if not at that, then at the material opulence of it. More likely, though, at the stuffiness, the airlessness, of it. With Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce, Vincent Perez; directed by Bruce Beresford. (2001) — Duncan Shepherd
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