Malkovich is KLIMT - The first Movie Poster !

Posted by: MacReady

We just received the first official poster for "Klimt". It's the Austrian poster and the movie had its world premiere last night in Vienna, where also parts of the movie have been filmed. Sadly no international release dates have been announced yet. To view the poster in full size, just click the small version to the right. And dont forget to visit our gallery with 33 "Klimt" movie photos right here.

Klimt's paintings have a fascinating expressiveness, passion, sensuality and, like his own life, are dedicated to women. Way ahead of his time, he was celebrated in Paris and condemned in his home town of Vienna for being provocative. Klimt's eternal search for perfection, eroticism and love is reflected in all of his works and finds its cinematic expression in the portrayal of his accomplishment and in his passionate relationship to a French dancer and actress.

Director Raoul Ruiz transports us back to the year 1918. Gustav Klimt (John Malkovich) lies on his deathbed. Egon Schiele (Nikolai Kinsky), who is the only one to be permitted to see him, sketches his friend and mentor. We follow Klimt's feverish visions back to the Austrian pavilion at the World Exhibition of 1900 in Paris, where he is awarded the gold medal for his work entitled "Philosophy". We witness his encounters with the film magician, MÃ©liÃ¨s, with the mysterious French dancer and with the "Secretary of State", an oppressive fatherly figure who accompanies Klimt through the film like a shadow.

As a central theme, Raoul Ruiz focuses on the scandal that grows out of the allegorical portraits commissioned by the State. Viennese society condemns Klimt's works in such a way that Klimt feels compelled to remove the State-owned paintings from the Secession. To this end, Ruiz uses "authentic" events, dialogue and citations from contemporaries and from Klimtâ€™s circle of friends, such as Egon Schiele, Berta Zuckerkandl, August and Serena Lederer or Karl Kraus.

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