Click here to copy URL

Edvard Munch (TV)

Edvard Munch

1974

Peter Watkins

Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Ragnvald Caspari, Inger-Berit Oland ...

7.8

441

Drama Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe's most maligned and controversial artist, the film also flashes back to the death from consumption of his mother, when he was five, his sister's death, and his near death at 13 from pulmonary disease. The film finds enduring significance in Munch's brief affair with "Mrs. Heiberg" and his ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[A] moving, complex, beautifully felt portrait of the great Norwegian artist Edvard Munch"
		Rob Mackie The Guardian	"The director is also unusually detailed on the texture and technique (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Eric Henderson Slant	"Edvard Munch, in Watkins' subjective documentary setting, is one of the penultimate cultural crusaders, a relic of a dying era (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		A.A. Dowd AV Club	"By the end, viewers may finally feel like they know the artist, inside and out. That’s worth three-and-a-half hours, isn’t it?"
		J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"Long but fascinating (...) Though haunting, the film is also admirably precise in its documentation of Munch's work process"
		Time Out	"[It] easily vindicates its running time (...) It's a remarkable film."

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.