Museum Hours

Museum Hours

By Jem Cohen

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 2013-05-30
  • Advisory Rating: Unrated
  • Runtime: 1h 46min
  • Director: Jem Cohen
  • Production Company: KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production
  • Production Country: Austria, United States of America
  • iTunes Price: USD 9.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
6.9/10
6.9
From 44 Ratings

Description

Acclaimed filmmaker Jem Cohen’s new feature, Museum Hours, is a mesmerizing tale of two adrift strangers who find refuge in Vienna’s grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. Johann, a museum guard, spends his days silently observing both the art and the visitors. Anne, suddenly called to Vienna from overseas, has been wandering the city in a state of limbo. A chance meeting sparks a deepening connection that draws them through the halls of the museum and the streets of the city. The exquisitely photographed Museum Hours is an ode to the bonds of friendship, an exploration of an unseen Vienna, and the power of art to both mirror and alter our lives.

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  • Lame

    1
    By Bowtiemi6
    No, really lame!
  • Ways of Seeing

    5
    By Valval07
    I do not understand why some people rate this movie with one star. May be they think that independent films are a sub-genre of Hollywood movies, like zombie-movies or so on. It seems that the unique thinking is now polluting another way of seeing... Of course it is not a coincidence to summarize this film with the title of this review, because the director acknowledges John Berger for talking with him. Said that, you could imagine what this portrait is about: loneliness, solidarity, and human scale in a fragmented world. Worth to see it. Worth to share it.
  • I wanted to like this movie, but...

    1
    By Taster11
    it was dreary, blurry, depressing, and no plot what-so-ever. It is not a deep engrossing movie with all this meaning. It is just not. Skip it.
  • Very Beautiful Film

    5
    By Locus_Solus
    An absolutely beautiful work of art. A film that dares to pause, look and reflect on the connections between high and popular culture, refinement and brutishness, friendship and loss, and the echoes of life across time.
  • Don't miss this amazing film

    5
    By GatheringEvidence
    I'll let the Washington Post sum up this truly incredible film: "An exhilarating journey through art and life... Like any collection of works of art, 'Museum Hours' can be enjoyed on a multitude of levels: as a chance to see the Kunsthistorische’s riches; as yet another travelogue of Vienna (joining a film tradition that spans “The Third Man” and “Before Sunrise”); as an un­or­tho­dox love story; as a slice of rootless, cosmopolitan life; as an experiment in rigorously un-coercive cinema. Whether viewers take one or all of these perspectives, they’ll come away from 'Museum Hours' with a refreshed sense of their own world, bursting with questions about what we choose to elevate as art and how we might identify the poetic contours of our own lives."
  • Incredibly boring movie

    1
    By Lansing MI native
    Don't believe the 93 percent critics rating. Believe the 1 star rating of the previous poster and this one. This movie crawls like a glacier and has no plot. Unbelievably bad. Why when there are several good movies out, would anyone give this a rating higher than a one? ANd that is only because 1 is the lowest rating they will let you give it.
  • Viewer beware

    1
    By Bbbbrio
    More like a museum tour (which I love) but no plot whatsoever. A vague glimpse of Austrian culture. The human interactions were completely obtuse. Barely made it through the film.

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