Malkovich ( who can play anything and anybody) is austrian painter gustav klimt. Probably best known for drawing women's bodies, some within patterns, or scenes. These were sometimes considered pornographic or erotic. And klimt should know, having fathered fourteen children, according to wikipeda. Because his commissioned works were shunned, he stopped taking public commissions, and only worked in private. Because his father had worked with gold, klimt worked gold leaf into many of his works. And apparently, many of his works were stolen by the nazis during world war two, and some of them are still in the process of being returned to the families who had owned them. Klimt lived to a ripe old age of 55, which wasn't bad for the time. The last few scenes of the film are pretty trippy, as he seems to be going batty. Directed by raúl ruiz.
