A true conversation with the past, which reminds us that all of what we consider fixed in the canon or forged by history is in place because of specific human personalities and decisions.
This is graceful and provocative filmmaking. It works both as art history and as an account of wartime Paris under German occupation. It’s also the story of a strange and very unlikely friendship without which the Louvre might have been stripped bare.
In this sophisticated but playful cine-prose poem, Alexander Sokurov does for the Louvre what he previously did for the Hermitage in Russian Ark.
The pompous narrative mars this occasionally profound history of the Louvre.
Impossible to appreciate in a single sitting, this masterly piece of polemical filmmaking is as intoxicating as it is intriguing.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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