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AUCTION

| 2024 – 91′ – Drama.
Written by: Pascal Bonitzer.
Directed by: Pascal Bonitzer.
Starring: Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Nora Hamzawi, Louise Chevillotte, Arcadi Radeff, Laurence Côte, Alain Chamfort, Matthieu Lucci.
Official Selections: Rendezvous With French Cinema in New York 2024.
Official Competition TAFFF 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Menemsha Films release. |

An auctioneer is like a plastic surgeon. You have to put your trust in him.” So begins Pascal Bonitzer‘s exquisite jewel of a film, Auction. Like a fine-cut diamond, with sharp, clean edges and meticulously-crafted from every angle, the film plunges us into the slick art world of the City of Light. Celebrated auctioneer and modern art specialist André Masson receives a letter stating that a painting — potentially by Egon Schiele — has been found in the dreary French city of Mulhouse, on the border of Germany. The masterwork has been missing since 1939, when it was confiscated by the Nazis, and has been stumbled upon in the home of young factory worker Martin Keller and his ailing mother. Based on a true story, that discovery upends the lives of both men. Brilliantly written, brought to life with elegant precision by a superb cast, and packing an enormous emotional punch at its climax, Auction may just turn out to be Bonitzer’s masterwork, as well.