Wikipedia - "Museum Hours is a 2012 Austrian-American drama film written and directed by Jem Cohen. The film is set in and around Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum. When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways artworks reflect and shape the world. Vienna, winter. Johan, a guard at the grand Kunsthistorisches Museum encounters Anne, a foreign visitor called to Austria because of a medical emergency. Never having been to Austria and with little money, she wanders the city in limbo, taking the museum as her refuge. Johann, initially wary, offers help, and they're drawn into each other's worlds. Their meeting spark an unexpected series of explorations – of their own lives and the life of the city, and of the way artworks can reflect and shape daily experience."
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Museum Hours (vimeo: Video)
NY Times: Old Masters, Sweet Mysteries
Voice: Museum Hours Makes Art of Waiting
NPR: In Vienna, A Gallery Of Hours That Add Up To Art
Ebertfest: Roger Ebert's Film Festival
Wandering in Vienna: Jem Cohen and the Adventure of Museum Hours
YouTube: Museum Hours Official Trailer 1 (2013), Trailer 2
2014 January: Jem Cohen
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