Mahler
(Warner Bros.)
Ken Russell's outrageous bio-pic of the great Austro-Bohemian
composer rides roughshod over the facts and leaves a good deal unexplained;
moreover it's made up mostly of flashbacks and fantasy sequences that, with
Nazis running about everywhere, aren't exactly in good taste. But Robert Powell
looks and acts uncannily like Gustav, Georgina Hale is a vision (for her
performance as well as her beauty) as his wife, Alma, and you can't beat the
all-Mahler soundtrack.
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