Video Starring Pascal Bonitzer’s new film, the two actors tell us how they immersed themselves in the very particular world of the art market… and take the opportunity to tell us a few anecdotes.
By Le Nouvel Obs
Published on May 1, 2024 at 8:00 a.m.
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It had been forgotten for decades in the back of a small house in Mulhouse. By resurfacing thanks to a life annuity, this painting by Egon Schiele, looted by the Nazis during the Second World War, will turn the life of its owner, a young chemical worker working at night, upside down. In “The Stolen Painting”, a brilliant dramatic comedy by Pascal Bonitzer, Alex Lutz and Nora Hamzawi respectively play a long-toothed auctioneer and a cynical but humane lawyer.
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The film immerses us in the little-known world of the art market where both the love of art and the power of money combine. “Very quickly, you can be like a bad lawyer in a bad series who will say ‘Objection, your honor'”, explains Alex Lutz who admits that, like Nora Hamzawi, he has never set foot in an auction room before. The duo is, however, far from being insensitive to art. Because when asked about the works that they would have the right to steal to install in their living room, the duo is inexhaustible: Vermeer, Hopper, Giacometti, Erik White, Ron Mueck…
And still others whose names did not immediately come to mind. But there is no shortage of inspiration. A video interview to watch in full above.
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