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What's most disappointing, howev- er, is that Alma's psychology should make for interesting drama. We cer- tainly wonder what prompts her to suppress her own artistic impulses and turn them into sexual ones. Unfortunately, the film seems con- tent to give us mere pictures — com- plete with the requisite lavish cos- tumes and shots of Viennese soirees — instead of delving in to Alma's conflict with any depth or sensitivity. irector Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) shifts g ears with his newest film, Bride of the Wind. This period picture traces the life of capricious young Alma Schindler, notable beauty of turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna. The story is historical biography, which Beresford attempts to pass off as epic fare. Alma (1879-1964) was best known for her series of relationships with the artistic stars of her era: Jewish-born modernist composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, painter Oskar Kokoschka and Jewish writer Franz Werfel, with whom she fled the Nazis for America. But she was also a fledgling compos- er in her own right. Although the film doesn't ever convince us that Alma was a true talent, the filmmakers take the opportuni- ty to turn this into a pseudo- feminist fable of a woman whose artistic excellence is sup- pressed by a male-dominated society that refuses to admit her to the "boys club." The film falters miserably in part because the strikingly beautiful actress Sarah Wynter simply can't carry the role of Jonathan Pryce as Gustav Mahler and Sarah Alma. Instead of being the Wynter as Alma Mahler in "Bride of the Wind" intriguing muse, she comes across as bored, spoiled, self-indulgent Although anti-Semitism is impor- and only moderately intelligent — tant as a backdrop to the events in interested not in music itself, but in Alma's life, it is given only a cursory the social prestige and attention that acknowledgement in the film. Mahler, comes from being associated with tal- it appears, converted to Christianity ented men. as a pragmatic career move. The Alma first falls for Alexander impetuous Alma announces, "I hate Zamlinsky, her piano tutor. However, she you and your Jewish music." But drops him in an instant after meeting that's about as developed as the social Gustav Mahler (Jonathan Pryce). When conflict is allowed to get. 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