Museum Hours
Director: Jem Cohen
2012 / 107min / DCP
A chance meeting between Johann (Bobby Sommer), a guard at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum with a philosophical bent, and Anne (Mary Margaret O’Hara), a Canadian stranger newly arrived in the city who has taken refuge in its galleries, is the jumping off point for Cohen’s sublimely cerebral, dialogue-driven film of ideas, chockablock with observations on urban life, the role of the museum as repository of living history, the paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and much else besides. “Fluidly mixes fiction and non-fiction, scripted and improvisational scenes into a narrative collage that feels organic… Allows meaning to accrete through the mingling of open-ended meditations on history, art, urbanism, and personal biography.” —The Brooklyn Rail
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Q&A with filmmaker Jem Cohen on Friday, December 4th
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