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Museum Hours
Directed by
Jem Cohen
Not Rated
2012
1h 47m
Drama
6.9
95%
61%
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When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads that sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways in which works of art reflect and shape the world.
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Cast of Museum Hours
Mary Margaret O'Hara
Anne
Bobby Sommer
Johann
Ela Piplits
Gerda Pachner
Marcus O'Hara
Bruegel Tour Group
Deborah Gzesh
Bruegel Tour Group
Marco Calamita
Bruegel Tour Group
Nina Calamita
Bruegel Tour Group
Sigrid Mölg
Bruegel Tour Group
Evelyne Egerer
Bruegel Tour Group
Gerda Hartl
Museum Visitor
Ivo Hunek
Museum Visitor
Anna Maria Innerhofer
Museum Visitor
Anna Nowak
Museum Visitor
Michaela Buchegger
Museum Visitor
Hellmut Goebl
Museum Visitor
Jem Cohen
Director / Producer
Natalie Lettner
Writer
Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Producer
Paolo Calamita
Producer
Museum Hours Ratings & Reviews
ARTINFO.com
J. Hoberman
Museum Hours offers neither a city symphony nor a love story but a serenely eccentric way of looking.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Sommer is perfect. So is O'Hara. This is the "Before Sunrise" for a very different (and platonic) pair of individuals.
Grantland
Wesley Morris
Amid all the looking and dissection, Cohen demonstrates an understanding of the individual need for increasingly elusive privacy that feels urgent, wistful, and quaint.
AskMen.com
Radheyan Simonpillai
Cohen's simple, masterful film considers how we anoint value.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
The quiet time that Johann and Anne spend during museum hours -- and after his shifts on trips around the city -- offer solace in their mutual solitude. Museum Hours is an introverted companion for its viewers.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The two leads contribute fresh, genuine performances, and what might have been a musty academic exercise gains in tension from Cohen's deft juxtaposing of vocal narration, character detail, and majestic artwork.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
Great art has the power to comment on life's issues - sex, death, parenthood, religion, etc. - and Cohen uses the power of the still image to construct a film of moving ones with power of its own.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
It's as if Cohen had lived for centuries among these places, and sometimes with art that encapsulates these centuries, and is pleasantly imprisoned within its strength.
San Francisco Chronicle
Leba Hertz
It has its tedium, but it's not bad. At times, it's actually quite good.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rob Nelson
Cohen's spare but spectacularly visualized film follows a pair of middle-aged strangers who meet in a Viennese art museum and proceed to walk and talk.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
An enthralling and sometimes droll meditation on life, art and mortality, not to mention Internet porn and its influence on modern art.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
"Museum Hours" is every bit as masterfully conceived and executed as the art works that serve as the film's lively cast of supporting characters.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Difficult to describe but not to enjoy.
Paste Magazine
Tim Grierson
"Museum Hours" is less about individuals than it is about collective experiences -- how we all take part in life's broad canvas.
Detroit News
Tom Long
A lot of it works, some of it doesn't.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
One of the world's great art museums, the Kunsthistoriches is the true star of the movie "Museum Hours."
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
It's lovely but lulling, and for a movie in which little happens, oddly predictable.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
It finds the time to look at looking, and to offer a slow revelation: to the lonely and the stranded, it is art that feels like home.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
The film shows how quiet exteriors can mask deep interior lives, and how art feeds those lives.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
This movie is rigorously and intensely lifelike, which is to say that it's also a strange and moving work of art.
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