„I cannot remember a more haunting film about an artist. […] Watkins managed to be still and restless, clear-cut and disordered, without any contradiction.“ – Rezension im Daily Telegraph, zitiert nach der Webseite von Peter Watkins, abgerufen am 17. Juni 2012.
nytimes.com
movies.nytimes.com
„[…] moving, complex, beautifully felt portrait […] one of the few ever to dramatize successfully the sensitivity, the profound emotional chaos and the discipline that occasionally combine to produce the special molecular structure of a major artist.“ – Rezension in der New York Times vom 13. September 1976, abgerufen am 17. Juni 2012.
„If any filmmaker could do justice to [Munch] it is Peter Watkins, who […] could match Munch obsession for obsession. […] Its excesses are not of the Ken Russell variety […] for irresponsible, indeed masturbatory, fabrications […] He tries to crowd in too many facts of every sort–relevant, barely relevant, irrelevant–in a compulsive need to give his subject the vastest possible ramifications. […] An undertaking of such boundless, such manic magnitude is clearly doomed to failure […] But […] it is the most magnificent failure I have seen in years […]“ – Rezension im New York Magazine vom 13. September 1976, S. 89ff., abgerufen am 17. Juni 2012.
sensesofcinema.com
Rezension von Robert Keser auf Sensesofcinema.com, abgerufen am 18. Juni 2012.
