MOVIE · 1974
Mahler
Drama115 min
During a train journey, famed composer Gustav Mahler looks back on the tragedies that shaped his life while his marriage to Alma strains under the conversation beside him. Robert Powell is Mahler, with the trip opening into memories, arguments, and flashes from his past; Georgina Hale’s Alma pushes back against the version of their life he wants to revisit. Ken Russell frames the biographical portrait through subjective, often surreal episodes, folding classical music, marital conflict, and Mahler’s stature as a celebrated artist into one restless passage through memory.
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