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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Unrated, 2 hrs. 54 min.

Directed by: Peter Watkins

Release Date: January 1, 1975

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  • June 4, 2008
    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)rlier films in that several tracks would be playing at the same time, often they are partially divorced from the images, but they work in the same way as his montage editing. All the elements of the narrative mesh so well within editing style to present vividly the artist, his world, and the artistic process.
  • 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)from Vincent drinks and suddenly he sees the sunflowers blue. The director is an artist himself and uses all the possibilities given by the TV camera. The light and in general the ambiance is unique (cold and inspiring).
    Despite the fact that Watkins latter said he did not like this bit of his work, the editing is wonderful. It is fast and it tells its own story. It allows Watkins to deal with the childhood memories but in the mean time to escape the Freudian interpretations.
    There would be many other aspects of the film to praise (costumes, how it deals with Munch's influences, ?) but let me just say one last thing: watch it and you'll never thanks Watkins enough to have made the pleasure last 3 hours.
  • December 10, 2009
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  • 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)The flashbacks were confusing and annoying at first but then it dawned on me that perhaps this was Munch living his life and having memories of his earlier years. Who hasn't been somewhere, maybe with someone, doing something and has had their mind drift off to some other time as in a daydream? Of course, Munch's "dreams" were rather disturbing, being based on the rough childhood and whatnot. Anway, overall it was a decent film by the end.
  • 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)because it reminds me of the horrible film!!
  • 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)" applies because of this. You have to have line readings in drama, don't you? Up there with Young Mr. Lincoln as my favorite biopic.

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