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Bride of the Wind (2001)

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Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 64
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 57

Bride of the Wind drags for its length, and Alma, rather than being the proto-feminist the film wants her to be, comes across more as a dilettante of mediocre talent.

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Average Rating: 2.9/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 28

Bride of the Wind drags for its length, and Alma, rather than being the proto-feminist the film wants her to be, comes across more as a dilettante of mediocre talent.

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Movie Info

Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) delivers this fact-based drama about one of the most fascinating private lives of the 20th century. Alma Schindler (Sarah Wynter) was one of the most renowned young beauties in turn-of-the-century Vienna, sought after as a romantic conquest by some of the most famous men in the city, including the artist Gustav Klimt (August Schmolzer). She is won, however, by the most challenging and enigmatic artistic figure of them all, composer/conductor Gustav Mahler

R, 1 hr. 39 min.

Musical & Performing Arts, Drama

Marylin Levy

Nov 13, 2001

Paramount Classics

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All Critics (66) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (57) | DVD (7)

Alma Mahler is flirting again.

April 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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An often silly and oddly tepid biopic from director Bruce Beresford.

March 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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As Sarah Wynter plays Alma, it's difficult to see what all the hue and cry was about.

January 22, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
New York Magazine
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Watching it is like walking, walking, walking down a never-ending aisle.

September 20, 2001 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Dallas Morning News
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The filmmakers' limited notions of genius, simple humanity and, probably, feminism seem to have defeated everyone involved.

August 9, 2001 Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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Levy's bloodless screenplay runs dutifully through Alma's life as though ticking off the points against a checklist.

June 25, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Sarah Wynter doesn't quite have the chops, Bruce Beresford doesn't quite have the heart, and the audience probably doesn't have anywhere near the level of interest.

December 5, 2004 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

Never successfully answers what Alma Schindler had that drew composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, writer Franz Werfel, and painter Oskar Kokoschka to her.

May 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Beresford and his screenwriter, Marilyn Levy, have a wealth of compelling material at their disposal. But somehow the film doesn't quite cohere.

March 10, 2003 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

Beresford has picked a terrific cast to tell this story.

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | Comment
San Diego Metropolitan

If this movie is any evidence of Alma's true persona, I'd contend that the miserable gal never deserved her own bio-pic in the first place.

July 28, 2002 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Bride of the Wind is burdened with a wooden story and characterizations.

March 18, 2002 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

As in most film biographies, we suffer from lack of understanding of the motivating forces behind the events of the person's life.

November 27, 2001 Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | Comment
Cinema Signals

It's just another attractive costume drama, with a few sexy scenes thrown in for spice, and a classical music setting that qualifies this as another difficult-to-market artsy film.

November 24, 2001 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

Incredibly superficial and clinically icy, with characters who act so aloof that it's hard to care about what happens to them.

August 3, 2001 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

"Remember Sharon Stone in 'The Muse?' Alma Schindler assumes that role in early 20th-century Vienna in this glossy but floundering drama."

July 9, 2001 Full Review Source: www.susangranger.com | Comment
www.susangranger.com

Wynter's portrayal is flat and unconvincing.

July 6, 2001 Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | Comment
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

It seems merely a cardboard copy of a fertile and febrile time.

July 5, 2001 Comment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The turgid Marilyn Levy screenplay ... induced giggles at the screening.

June 29, 2001 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times
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Audience Reviews for Bride of the Wind

Had no idea Mahler was a Jew. Just googled, "Mahler, Hitler," and it does appear that Hitler knew this interesting little detail. So, this movie, this, "Bride Of The Wind," was not a complete waste of time after all!

September 30, 2010

(* 1/2): I didn't expect to see something this awful. The story and acting (for the most part) is quite laughable and the film as a whole is really, really boring. The only really positive thing is that the film has some decent cinematography; some good substance to go with it would have (of course) helped! A major

March 11, 2008
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