Auction (Le Tableau volé) - Q&A with the director
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Dir. by Pascal Bonitzer (2024)
Cast: Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Nora Hamzawi...
Runtime: 91 min
Followed by a Q&A with dir. Pascal Bonitzer
When star Parisian auctioneer André learns that a long-lost Egon Schiele painting looted by Nazis is hanging in a small town worker’s home, he pays a visit and verifies its authenticity… as well as its iniquitous wartime provenance. A race to navigate the thorny art world collides with a triangle of players including André’s mendacious intern, his savvy ex-wife/art appraiser, and the earnest worker caught unawares in a moral dilemma.
Pascal Bonitzer—a former Cahiers du Cinéma critic and screenwriter for André Téchiné, Jacques Rivette, Raoul Peck, and others—gamely skewers the absurdities of the big money art market while converging historical and moral questions with welcome optimism.
"This smart, digressive, agreeably sardonic drama set in the art world... tracks what happens after a decades-lost painting by Egon Schiele resurfaces.” - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times.
In French with English subtitles.
Event organized in partnership with Unifrance.