15.oktober

“Jem Cohen’s quiet, strange and compelling hybrid film uses a brief encounter between wizened souls – Johann (Bobby Sommer), a genial guard at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, and Anne (singer Mary Margaret O’Hara), a Canadian tourist – to frame an inquiry into art history and the pleasures of looking. Inspired by Brueghel’s busy tableaux, Cohen is drawn to museum minutiae: a canvas’s unnoticed details, yawning schoolchildren, cigarette butts gathering outside the entrance. As the relationship progresses, he ends up cataloguing Vienna itself, transforming even its banal or throwaway features into a kind of art.” meir…
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