Museum Hours

Director: Jem Cohen
Writer: Jem Cohen
Cast: Mary Margaret O'Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits
Theatrical Release Date: August 8, 2012
Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival

Synopsis: A Vienna museum guard befriends a foreign visitor who has been called to Austria because of a medical emergency. The grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes an enigmatic crossroads which sparks explorations of their lives, of the city, and of the ways artworks reflect and shape the world. [Synopsis courtesy of TIFF]

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