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7.9
/10
890 Ratings

MUSEUM HOURS

Directed by Jem Cohen
Austria, United States, 2012
Drama
  • 107107 minutes

Synopsis

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…

Synopsis

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…

Our take

Museum Hours seems to exist in an impossible confluence between narrative freedom and careful composition, between everyday wisdom and art history, between time present and time past. All this while being one of the most deeply moving odes to friendship in recent cinema. Is this a film or a miracle?