Museum Hours

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12/05/2020 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. See more 07/14/2016 "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. See more 03/17/2016 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. See more 11/26/2015 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. See more 11/12/2015 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). See more 09/01/2014 An unexpected meditative gem, I feel like I just spent an hour in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. See more Read all reviews

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