You know it's going to be a great film when you have Watkins applying the montage editing that has served his provocative war films so well to a vast biopic. The film mixes biography to improvised fiction. In addition the soundtrack is much more intricately designed than the ea...( read more)
Erik Allum, Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Kjersti Allum, Susan Troldmyr
Film mixes fact and fiction to present a giant collage of the life of one of the most important figures of modern art.
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June 4, 2008
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January 22, 2008
Certainly one of the best movies ever made. The actors are brilliant, specially the one playing Munch who has as well an amazing physical resemblance with the original.
This is also the only film of fiction that convincingly portraits the creativity required to paint, miles away ...( read more) -
September 6, 2009
Definitely difficult at first but it was one of those films that grows toward the finale. Hanging with anarchists and trying to find answers to life's questions that modern day scientific methods still haven't figured out - there were a few thought-provoking questions put forth. ...( read more)
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February 19, 2009
OH GOD!!! I had trouble sitting through this extremely long and repetative re-enactment of Edvard Munch's life! Sure, it was great to get an idea of how crazy he was driven by this woman and his family experience, but where once i enjoyed his art, now i am a little annoyed by it ...( read more)
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January 16, 2009
Amazing amazing film: part documentary, part fevered pitch dream. I was at first flabbergasted and refused to believe that the actors were non-professionals because they were so good. Then I realized they were barely reciting any lines on screen. I don't think the term "docudrama...( read more)
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