When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways artworks reflect and shape the world.
Like José Luis Guerín's brilliant 2007 curio In the City of Sylvia, this is one of those rare films that may change the way you view the world.
With a wondrously unobtrusive touch the film presents a lesson in looking, and also in the more complicated business of appreciating.
As discussions about the purpose of art illuminate aspects of real life, the film exerts a mild grip, but not enough to make this as engaging as it could have been.
The film’s effortless complexity means it won’t soon be forgotten.
A leisurely, slender, trance-like depiction of a developing platonic relationship.
A still life with substance.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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