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Francofonia
Directed by
Aleksandr Sokurov
2015
87m
Not Rated
Drama
,
History
,
Documentary
6.6
87%
47%
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A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
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Cast of Francofonia
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Jacques Jaujard
Vincent Nemeth
Napoléon Bonaparte
Benjamin Utzerath
Franz Wolff-Metternich
Jean-Claude Caër
Johanna Korthals Altes
Marianne
Aleksandr Sokurov
(voice)
François Smesny
(voice)
Peter Lontzek
(voice)
Andrey Chelpanov
Catherine Limbert
La secrétaire de Jacques Jaujard
Léolo
Groom service
Francofonia Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
As Sokurov examines a pivotal point in the Louvre's history and gives us a virtual tour of the magnificent museum, he makes larger points about the vital importance of art throughout human history. This is one of the most beautiful films of the year.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
"Francofonia," a powerful cinematic essay on how art and war are irrevocably intertwined, has an ideal canvas and time peg for its philosophical musings: the Louvre Museum during the Nazi occupation of France.
Detroit News
Tom Long
"Francofonia" is terribly over-directed and seems strange just for the sake of being strange.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Near the one-hour mark, the filmmaker asks, "You aren't tired of listening to me yet?" If you aren't, you will be soon.
RogerEbert.com
Alissa Wilkinson
This film wanders like a flneur between past and present, traversing space and history, crossing from fiction to nonfiction and back.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Sokurov's elegy for Europe - and for art - is eloquent, sorrowful, and challenging. And films like this suggest that such epitaphs may be premature.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Blending archival footage, actor re-creation and special effects (sometimes all in the same shot), he creates a sense of specific place and time - and, in doing so, crafts a sort of cinematic ode to art.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
[Sokurov's] little capers loosen up the proceedings and make his underlying seriousness more inviting. A philosopher with a sense of humor is a rarity.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
This is disjointed and dreary, its power diluted by Sokurov's constant, self-important narration.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Francofonia is a brilliant meditation on art, on war - and what happens to art when nations go to war.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
"Francofonia" is a love letter to France and the Louvre, but it's also a harrowing reminder that not all cultures have been held in such high esteem.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Wandering through the Louvre's colonial plunder, Sokurov ponders the lost worlds of Egypt and Assyria, but ultimately finds his way home.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Francofonia is scatterbrained, occasionally leaden, frequently redundant, crammed with false starts and dead ends, wrapped in gauzy greenish murk.
New Yorker
Anthony Lane
What matters at this point, as Sokurov admirers can confirm, is to hold your nerve, and to trust that all these strands will be threaded into the weave of a larger design.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
Beware the film billed as a "meditation" on anything.
Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
The subject of Francofonia is art as the spoils of war... Making the barest hint about the destruction of historic artworks in Syria at the hands of ISIS, Sokurov gently reminds the viewer why all this is terribly relevant today.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
Alexander Sokurov's dense, enriching meditation on the Louvre and specifically (but not exclusively) the museum's status during WWII defies categorization.
Slant Magazine
Sean Nam
For all its congratulatory spirit, the film has the persistent feeling of an elegy bidding adieu to a bygone time.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Sokurov has a gift, perhaps unmatched among his international peers, for turning intellectual brooding into visually arresting cinema.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
Skipping across ages and genres, this cine-essay beguilement from Russian Ark director Alexander Sokurov considers the Louvre - and the miracle of the transmission of art and culture across its history.
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