Film Series | The Kiss

Friday, February 14, 2014

11:15am and 3:00pm

Klimt, 2002

A character study and a meditation on art in a time of opulence and syphilis. Gustave Klimt (1862-1918) lies in hospital, dying. In reveries, he recalls the early 1900s: it’s fin de siècle Vienna. At the World Exposition in Paris, Klimt meets Georges Méliès, who does a moving picture for him, and Klimt falls under the spell of a woman who may be Lea de Castro. We see Klimt in his studio; we meet his mother and sister, who suffer from mental illness. We watch Klimt the libertine. On his deathbed and as a younger man, he imagines things as well: encounters with ministers and waiters and with women who are willing participants in his pleasures. Is this the source of art?

NSU Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale , Horvitz Auditorium

Please RSVP to moareservations@moafl.org  or (954) 262-0227.

$10 per person, includes museum admission; Free for museum members