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Title: Attention Mahler fans! This has a soundtrack for you!!
Review: I confess, art films are, for the most part, lost on me. If you like Ken Russell and the kind of movie he makes, you will like "Mahler." A lame remark for a lame movie. As an ardent and devoted fan of Mahler's music I felt compelled to watch this thing, but books are far more revealing about Mahler and his legacy than this pretentious and overwrought wallow in ponderous piffle. The one part that I did like, of course, was the music. Russell puts it to good use - but regrettably we don't see much of Mahler the conductor. In any case, the movie is too bad to be boring, but I look forward to a less arty and more straightforward motion picture interpretation of Mahler's life. Maybe someday.
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