French Friday Movie 

 COMEDY, drama / FRANCE / 2024 / 91 MINS / m

In French  with English subtitles

Directed by: Pascal Bonitzer

Cast: Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Nora Hamzawi, Louise Chevillotte, Alain Chamfort, Olivier Rabourdin

Inspired by remarkable true events, acclaimed writer/director Pascal Bonitzer’s sharp and hugely engrossing new dramedy  follows a self-assured auctioneer whose professional and personal integrity is challenged by the discovery of a long-lost masterpiece.

Paris, present day. Brash 40-something André Masson, a hotshot modern art appraiser at prestigious high-end auction house Scottie’s, receives word that a painting by Egon Schiele may have been found in a young factory worker’s home in the Alsatian city of Mulhouse.

Though highly sceptical, André travels to view the canvas with his ex-partner Bettina  who is also an expert valuator, only to be convinced of its authenticity as a masterwork long-assumed destroyed by Nazi officials during WWII. For André, the ramifications of this once-in-a-lifetime find for his career and for his contentious relationship with his less-than-reliable intern Aurore, will prove both unexpected and transformative.Sharp, elegant and funny.

"If we put this film up for auction, hands wouldn't stop going up in the room.
Bonitzer once, Bonitzer twice, Bonitzer three times? Sold. The buyer won't regret it."
Eric Neuhoff LE FIGARO

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