klimt+Movies: Dying young (1991)

Dying Young is a 1991 film, directed by Joel Schumacher. It is based on a novel of the same name by Marti Leimbach, and stars Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott

""Dying Young" oversteps its bounds a bit when it emphasizes Victor's intellectual superiority to the point of allowing him to tutor Hilary in art history as a way of repaying her kindness, and underscores the fact that he has a doctoral thesis in the works. Still, Mr. Schumacher's use of rapturous portraits by Klimt and Rossetti is bluntly effective in underscoring the inspirational power of a beautiful artist's model. In this film he, too, has his muse"

in Dying Young (1991)  Review/Film; Messed-Up Lives in 'Dying Young'
By JANET MASLIN Published: June 21, 1991  NYT®