February 5, 2014 - "Museum Hours" (2012)

Museum Hours, 2012
Director: Jem Cohen
Origin: Austria | USA
Languages: German | English
Running time: 107 min

When Anne arrives in Vienna to visit an ailing relative, she takes refuge in the Kunsthistorisches Museum and befriends Johann, a guard. Director Jem Cohen blends fiction and documentary in this meditation on how art and the world shape each other. (from Netflix.com)

U.S. box office: $83,725
Watch the trailer on IMDB.

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Review of last week's film (The Makioka Sisters, 3 stars)
Steven says: Comparisons to Jane Austen stories or Downton Abbey are not far off for this 1983 Japanese melodrama. Appearances are everything to this family, though the changing cultural (and war) landscape in 1938 helps them see things from a different perspective.