Thursday, 21 May 2020

Woman In Gold (2015)


A monumental Supreme Court decision proves not so monumental a cinema experience in Woman In Gold with the verdict in the case (one brought by Maria Altmann against the Austrian Government in an attempt to reclaim Klimt artworks lost to her family during Austria's Nazi occupation) padded out to movie-length by way of tired, "but we already know what happened" hurdles to her cause and, further padding, the irrelevant (to the law) and not very illuminating character foibles of Altmann and her lawyer Randy Schoenberg, played respectively by underoccupied Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.

★★☆☆☆

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