Edvard Munch

A biopic can never tell its audience the whole story, yet at the same time what is the use of a biopic if it can't? Watkins, understanding this, prioritizes the context that surrounds the Norwegian painter more than the painter himself, the intent being that understanding…

reibureibu

"Illness, insanity and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all of my life."

rischka

The biopic as not only historical recovery but also psychological analysis, with both being interrelated instead of being mutually exclusive. The greatest example of one art form illuminating another through its own unique means.

CinemaShadow

It's all the things I want in film: politically and artistically challenging, Art=Politics, self-aware (i.e., transparent), emotionally moving, brutally personal (it invites me to relate Munch's story with specific events and people and emotions in my own life), freeform,…

Carlos Valladares

For how complicated Peter Watkins can be in theory, in practice his storytelling is viciously and intensely watchable. Watkins uses history to keep the character in motion. Watkins uses his key style of direction to unlock finer emotions in his characters. Most notably is…

Puffin

It's pronounced MUNK? I've been saying MUNCH all these years! Why didn't anyone tell me????

Justin Decloux

5th Peter Watkins (after The War Game, Culloden, Privilege and The Trap) If great art is meant to make you feel, then Edvard Munch is the first film I have seen that places you within the emotional landscape of an individual artist. Watkins challenges the conventions of…

Doc Lyon

"In the colors especially I can develop myself. It's something new... I think it will be good." Almost four hours of pure beauty, madness, and atmospheric artistic insight. Watkins mixes documentary realism with a unique narration, which gives you a film that feels more…

Rocky🕵️🎞️

Where does the line of fiction and non-fiction begins, and where does it end? What makes something a documentary, and what does it make it a narrative feature? Just like the artist himself, here's a movie that walks the thin line that separates what many see as a movie…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine