Alma Mahler is flirting again.

| Apr 7, 2009

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 5, 2004

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2004

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Beresford has picked a terrific cast to tell this story.

| Oct 21, 2002

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 28, 2002

An often silly and oddly tepid biopic from director Bruce Beresford.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

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

| Original Score: C | Mar 18, 2002

As Sarah Wynter plays Alma, it's difficult to see what all the hue and cry was about.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2002

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 27, 2001

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 68/100 | Nov 24, 2001

Watching it is like walking, walking, walking down a never-ending aisle.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2001

The filmmakers' limited notions of genius, simple humanity and, probably, feminism seem to have defeated everyone involved.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2001

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

| Aug 3, 2001

Wynter's portrayal is flat and unconvincing.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 6, 2001

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

Full Review | Jul 5, 2001

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

| Jun 29, 2001

[Wynter] simply doesn't show the stuff of a major star, and the well-mounted movie falls flat all around her.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jun 29, 2001

[Wynter's] performance is dull and expressionless, giving no clue what so many great artists found so fascinating.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2001

Levy's bloodless screenplay runs dutifully through Alma's life as though ticking off the points against a checklist.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 25, 2001