Museum Hours

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Audience Member This has its moments of grace, such as the songs sung in the privacy of a cramped hotel room. The docent's talk about Breugel's paintings was instructive. The shots of art in the museum cut with shots from the streets of Vienna seem to say, "Here, this is art too! Don't forget." The story that propels the narrative is not important at all, nor was most of the dialogue. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Ned P The kind of pretentious bore that critics love to tout to each other. A potentially poignant story of a woman saying goodbye to her critically ill cousin is submerged in a plotless mess of half-bright platitudes interspersed with shots of a chilly winter Vienna that made me want to take a plane to the French Riviera. Even the shots of the museum's artwork are marred by second-rate cinematograpy. A must-miss. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/16/18 Full Review Audience Member "Museum Hours" moves slowly but the intervals between the narrations give us time to fully digest and understand what we experienced before the next phase is presented. There is also the comparison of the past event to the immediate moment and the realization that some things are beyond human comprehension. The film shows that so much escapes our notice. It also shows how different are our individual viewpoints. It is a walking through way of experiencing art through living it. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the most peaceful films I've ever seen. A chance human connection casts beauty and warmth over a nameless man's simple life in a seemingly prosaic town. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member A weirdly fascinating blend of poetry and documentary, Museum Hours had me captivated for most of its running time. Somehow, with its mix of art education, tourism, and focus on human psychology, I was stimulated by seemingly banal visual montages of everyday, modern European city life. I loved the analysis of the Dutch painter Pieter Bruegel and how his "genre painting" of peasant life in the 16th century informed the look at modern 21st century life through the eyes of the museum guard and his verbal diary. This is definitely a piece of filmmaking to be studied, enjoyed, and revisited periodically with new eyes to see what new details can be gleamed from it. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a quiet movie meditating on friendship, art and reality, and the under-fabric of living. Nothing really happened, and there is no strong emotion nor expression. If this film tells no story, it gives us a rumination of human consciousness both lives in the individual's present time (Anne and Johann) and the life in the collective's past (museum's art pieces) and present (Vienna's street and people). Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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