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- 2016
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 28 m
- 2016
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 28 m
Summary A portrait of the Louvre transforms into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
Directed By: Aleksandr Sokurov
Written By: Aleksandr Sokurov
- 2016
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 28 m
- 2016
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 28 m
Francofonia
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5.1
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Summary A portrait of the Louvre transforms into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
Directed By: Aleksandr Sokurov
Written By: Aleksandr Sokurov
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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84% Positive
21 Reviews
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12% Mixed
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4% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
71
84% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
12% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Francofonia is a brilliant meditation on art, on war - and what happens to art when nations go to war.
Impossible to appreciate in a single sitting, this masterly piece of polemical filmmaking is as intoxicating as it is intriguing.
Francofonia is a fascinating essay and meditation on art, history and humanity’s idea of itself.
The Sokurov of Francofonia seems different from his usual self — more doubtful, uncertain in his focus, perhaps more open. And the film duly mirrors the attitude of its maker, jumping from one barely formed thought to the next, tracking back, mixing things up, like we all do while visiting a museum, and letting distraction get the best of us for a minute.
Sokurov's open-ended Eurocentric meditation is, above all, 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.
The subject of Francofonia is art as the spoils of war, and the example he gives is the period when the Louvre – called at one point “the capital of the world” – came under Nazi control. 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.
The director Alexander Sokurov is a visual virtuoso. So it’s odd, not to mention a bit disappointing, to find that the Russian filmmaker’s latest project, Francofonia, is so talky and, with rare exceptions, visually dull.
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User Score
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Based on 7 User Ratings
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Production Company
Idéale Audience,
Zero One Film,
N279 Entertainment,
Arte France Cinéma,
Musée du Louvre, Paris,
Eurimages,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW,
Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA),
Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF),
Nederlands Filmfonds,
MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Release Date Apr 1, 2016
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline The remarkable true story of the Louvre under Nazi occupation.
Website
http://francofonia.jp/
Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Russian Guild of Film Critics
• 3 Nominations
London Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
