Overview
- The 2024 French film, written and directed by Pascal Bonitzer and starring Alex Lutz and Léa Drucker, has arrived in Argentine cinemas with a 91‑minute run time.
- Set off by a letter from Mulhouse, the story follows a Paris auction specialist drawn to a long‑missing Egon Schiele painting confiscated by the Nazi regime in 1939.
- Critics note the film interrogates how provenance, money and memory intersect, focusing on moral and social tensions rather than legal technicalities.
- Coverage links the fiction to recent real cases, including the Mar del Plata discovery of Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Retrato de dama tied to the heirs of Jewish gallerist Jacques Goudstikker.
- Reporting situates the film within ongoing restitution debates and past recoveries, citing examples like the 2005 Schiele case, the Cornelius Gurlitt trove, and high‑value settlements and sales.