Review: Klimt

Chilean-born, French-based director and latter-day surrealist Raul Ruiz counts 1999’s Proust adaptation, “Time Regained,” among his hundred or more features and shorts. He rejoins John Malkovich with “Klimt,” in the director’s cut of a racy portrait of the life and art of the painter Gustav Klimt. (It’s at least half-an-hour longer than an earlier version that’s been shown in Chicago.) Grizzled decadence rather than raw sensuality is the order or the day. The settings, lovely, lustrous, seem to dance on their own while the goings-on go on. 131m. 35mm. (Ray Pride)