Satiric songster Tom Lehrer* has nothing to fear from this jog through the amazing series of lovers in the life of Alma Schindler (Klimt, Zemlinsky) Mahler (Schrecker, Kokochka) Gropius Werfel. Director Bruce Beresford keeps things calm and orderly (too bad), but the screenwriters try to cram all the juicy bon mots and bits into 100" running time (less when you subtract the musical fragments) and recklessly follow Alma’s infamously inaccurate and self-glorifying published writings and reworked diaries. Where's Ken Russell when we need him?
*Try your favorite search engine on THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS/Tom Lehrer to find his hilarious ode to Alma:
Alma tell us
All modern women are jealous
Though you didn't even use Ponds
You got Gustav und Walter und Franz
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