Sight and Sound, 03/01/2007, p.82, "[O]ne of the all-time great films made about an artist and artistic creation, its gorgeously textured visuals and contrapuntal editing effortlessly knitting together extreme psychological states, complex social relations and the play of memory."
Premiere, 04/01/2006, p.98, "[A]stonishing.....A very powerful work of what Watkins calls 'living history' and the greatest film about an artist since Tarkovsky's ANDREI RUBLEV."
Total Film, 11/01/2007, p.137, 4 stars out of 5 -- "Watkins shows how Munch's style grew out of his own anguished life."
"Edvard Munch" is part of New Yorker Video's "International Cinema" series. Their video features enhanced yellow subtitles.
Lighting by Erik Daeli, Cato Bautz and Willy Bettvik.
Produced by Norsk Rikzkringkasting/Sverges Radio AB.
Copyright 1976 NRK.
DVD Features:
Keep Case
Audio:
(unspecified) - English
(unspecified) - German
(unspecified) - Norwegian
Subtitles - English - Optional
Subtitles - French - Optional
Text/Photo Galleries:
Filmography - 1. Peter Watkins - Director
Additional Products:
Booklet - 1. 24-page booklet ft. Peter Water Watkins self-interview
A masterful semifictional portrait of Norwegian Expressionist painter Munch, whose raw, modern work "The Scream" shocked the bourgeois world.