
In 1902 Vienna, Alma Schindler meets Gustav Mahler. She's young and beautiful and music is her life: she plays and composes music. She becomes Mahler's lover, then he marries her, asking that she give up composing. She has two children, works as his assistant, does his books, saves him from debt, and feels stifled. In 1910, after the death of a child, she retreats to a spa where she falls in love with Walter Gropius. Will she go with him or stay with Mahler? She conducts an a... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1902 Vienna, Alma Schindler meets Gustav Mahler. She's young and beautiful and music is her life: she plays and composes music. She becomes Mahler's lover, then he marries her, asking that she give up composing. She has two children, works as his assistant, does his books, saves him from debt, and feels stifled. In 1910, after the death of a child, she retreats to a spa where she falls in love with Walter Gropius. Will she go with him or stay with Mahler? She conducts an affair with the tempestuous Oskar Kokoschka and is stifled in another way. Then she marries Gropius, who proves imperious. She leaves him for Franz Werfel: he finds her compositions and insists that the public hear them.
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| Associated PressDavid GermainBeresford (Driving Miss Daisy) allows Bride of the Wind to spend too much time spelling out the film's passions in words rather than letting the players show them. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeNever successfully answers what Alma Schindler had that drew composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, writer Franz Werfel, and painter Oskar Kokoschka to her. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzBride of the Wind is burdened with a wooden story and characterizations. |
| CitysearchChris BarsantiThis almost laughably shallow film is ultimately more interested in Alma's outfits than anything else. |
| Toronto StarSusan WalkerDespite all the sturm-und-drang of Alma Mahler's life, Bride Of The Wind fails to arouse much emotion in the viewer. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDuane DudekIt seems merely a cardboard copy of a fertile and febrile time. |
| New York Magazine/VulturePeter RainerAs Sarah Wynter plays Alma, it's difficult to see what all the hue and cry was about. |
| Washington PostPhilip KennicottFor all its sobriety, it adds very little new to the record, and it takes few speculative chances. |
| Aufmuth.comJeanne Aufmuth..stumbles under the burden of two-hours of focused, exaggerated emotion... |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyThe stifling piety of this film -- which regards anything old and vaguely arty as next to sacred -- needs some serious airing out. |