Reviews

• Botches the chance to delve into the personality of a complex, alluring, and free-spirited woman.

  Jay Carr - The Boston Globe
  
  27 May 2013

• It's a movie of elegant surfaces, great background music (by both the Mahlers), gossipy underpinnings and pretensions to romantic grandeur.

  Michael Wilmington - The Chicago Tribune
  
  27 May 2013

• The music is of course majestic, blending well with a loving cinematography.

  Connie Ogle - Miami Herald
  
  27 May 2013

• Was Alma a masochist? Repressed? Neurotic? A pre-feminist? Don't look for insight here.

  Lou Lumenick - New York Post
  
  27 May 2013

• Stuffing painters, writers and, naturally, Gustav Mahler (Jonathan Pryce) into about 90 minutes, the film comes off as little more than a handsomely mounted scorecard of sexual escapades.

  Staff [Not Credited] - USA Today
  
  27 May 2013