The Boston Phoenix
Review from issue: November 26 - December 3, 1998

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3 stars

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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