Edvard Munch

In one of his finest films, Peter Watkins brilliantly reinvents the ‘artist biopic’ to create an expansive yet intimate portrait of the youthful Edvard Munch.

  • Director

    Peter Watkins

  • With

    Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Eric Allum, Ragnvald Caspari

  • Norway-Sweden 1974. 174min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

Hailed by Ingmar Bergman as ‘a work of genius’, Watkins’ film fragments the difficult formative years of the Norwegian painter’s life into a vivid, intensely subjective exploration of memory, illness, sexuality and artistic creation. Blending interviews, direct address, documentary techniques and impressionistic montage, the film evokes both the emotional turbulence of Munch’s work and the social and emotional conditions that shaped it.

James Bell