Russian director Alexander Sokurov, best known for his single-take history of the Hermitage Museum, RUSSIAN ARK, turns his attention to The Louvre for this magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power. Not Rated. 88 mins.
"Sokurov’s elegy for Europe — and for art — is eloquent, sorrowful, and challenging." - Boston Globe
"A stunning visual achievement. The fluency with which he combines the pixels, ghosts and artifacts is extraordinary, and his deft use of drone footage is a lesson to many gadget-happy filmmakers." - Los Angeles Times
"A work of art that troubles the conscience, in part because it suggests, both by default and by design, that no art is innocent, and that its preservation, like its destruction, depends on the operation of power." - New York Times
"Sokurov’s ideas have a philosophical depth and richness that are found almost nowhere else in cinema." - The Telegraph
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