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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780769721194
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0769721192
Label: Kultur Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal LanguageNorwegianOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Kultur Video
Release Date: March 30, 2000
Running Time: 210 minutes
Studio: Kultur Video
Editorial Review:
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Positing itself as a live documentary filmed between 1884-1894, director Peter Watkins' experimental biography of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch(played by Geir Westby) is an angst-ridden glimpse into the traumatic political and social conditions that birthed Munch's invention of Expressionism. Tracing Munch's rise to infamy, the film begins in Victorian-era Christiania (Oslo), where Munch spent his formative years with a family plagued by disease. It then follows Munch to Berlin, where after studying Symbolism and befriending August Strindberg, Munch finds the impetus to create honest work that mimics his life rife with disconnect and rejection, despite scathing reviews by conservative art critics for his "nervous dissolving treatment of color." Plot-heavy scenes set in his studio and elsewhere are interrupted, as if by Munch's own obsessive memories, by shots of his lost true love, "Mrs. Heiberg" (Gro Fraas), accentuating the loneliness and longing Munch feels for this unattainable married woman. As the film's somber color palette alternates between black and blue, Munch's preferred "colors of death," Munch's interior thoughts are conveyed through Watkins' experimentation with sound and film. The sound made by Munch's brush scratching canvas is, at times, unbearably magnified, for example, and visual montages featuring close-ups of the artist's facial expressions elucidate Munch's disturbed emotional states and fragile nerves. The film's expressive qualities emulate the artist's stylistic approach to his art-making, making Edvard Munch an especially convincing artist's biopic. --Trinie Dalton
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The film is both historic and subjective in it's treatment by the film maker Peter Watkins.He breaks down the old rigid hierarchies of film making used in tv, biography, documentary,also in films depicting the lives and works of major artists. This film is also like a mirror he holds up to his own life and struggles, and rejection by his own society. Truly remarkable in that it is mounted like a documentary(with recreations of course)of the creative process,how Munch's personal life affected his ... Read More
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I have nothing but superlatives to offer this movie. I saw it originally on the screen in the 1970s and never forgot it and wondered if I would ever have the chance to see it again. Now that I own it in this spectacular double-DVD format, I can enjoy it whenever I want.
Peter Watkins used "real people" and "non-actors" to perform and shoot this magnificent glimpse into the life of Edvard Munch. One feels like you are so close to the action that Munch and his family and circle of friends ... Read More
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Peter Watkins' "Edvard Munch" is a biopic that has us peek into the culture and time of Munch's Norway. While we experience the tension and fragility of the artist we are given falshbacks and narrative overlays that strip the "documentary" of any feeling of artificiality. I cannot think of any other documentary that functions with such immersive absorption. Munch's art is the depiction of a soul's shadow with no substance to shade that which it illuminates. The Norwegian painter did not want to submerge ... Read More
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Peter Watkins's fascinating biopic about a troubled, nontraditional figure is itself iconoclastic, as it approaches telling Munch's life story through a mosaic of re-enactments, personal diary readings, and faux documentary footage, often repeated for effect. Distant from his father, Munch finds sustenance in a short-lived affair with Mrs. Heiberg (Fraas), a married woman from whom he draws inspiration. Using a variety of sound and color elements to convey Munch's state of mind, Watkins's engrossing film ... Read More
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EDVARD MUNCH, Peter Watkins' experimental, psychological exorcism of a bio-pic, is quite simply the greatest film about art and the artistic process ever produced. A stunning, emotional, provocative, unforgetable masterpiece surpassing even Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev" in its ability to convey an artist's emotional turmoil and the existential "struggle to remember, struggle to forget", as Munch himself put it, which is virtually impossible to communicate regardless of medium. However, through brilliant camerawork, ... Read More
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