“Klimt” begins as the artist is dying of syphilis in 1918 and proceeds in hallucinatory fashion through the last 18 years of his life. (Bernhard Berger / Outsider Pictures)
Nikolai Kinski portrays painter Egon Schiele in the film. (Bernhard Berger / Outsider Pictures)
John Malkovich and Saffron Burrows. To evoke the golden, swirling surfaces of Gustav Klimts images, writer-director Raul Ruiz used a range of low-tech effects, including some that the painter himself used to create his visually fractured imagery. (Bernhard Berger / Outsider Pictures)
