GFF: Francofonia
Tue 23 February 2016
Francofonia
Russian master Aleksandr Sokurov (Russian Ark, Moloch) offers us another profoundly beautiful night at the museum. Francofonia combines newsreel footage, floating images from the skyline of Paris and dramatised fantasy sequences to create a portrait of the Louvre Museum that grows into a freewheeling, wide-ranging meditation on France’s devotion to the arts. Adrift through time, the film shows us Napolean and French goddess of liberty, Marianne, gazing at the Mona Lisa, and reveals the relationship between museum curator Jacques Jaujard and German officer Count Franz Wolff-Metternich during Nazi occupation. A fascinating portrait of art, history and humanity.
(film also screens Wed 24 Feb, 3:30pm)
