Palouse French Film Festival
At the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre - 508 South Main, Moscow, ID
About the event
Le Tableau volé / Auction
Directed by Pascal Bonitzer
Comedy/Drama — 91 min. — 2024
In this thrilling satire about the highbrow art world of Parisian auctioneers, André Masson, a hotshot art broker at a premiere auction house, receives a letter from a lawyer claiming that a working-class family in the suburb of Mulhouse owns a painting by Egon Schiele. He realizes instantly that the painting is a genuine masterpiece that went missing in 1939. With the help of his colleague and ex-wife, a compulsively lying intern, and a provincial lawyer, André races to find a buyer for the prized work in what proves to be a delicate dance of deceit. In French with English subtitles.