So… are quirky art world dramedies a thing now? This year alone "Monuments Men" and Tim Burton‘s upcoming "Big Eyes" hit theaters, and in just a few months Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren will get together for "Woman In Gold." The first trailer has arrived today.
The movie is the latest from Simon Curtis ("My Week With Marilyn") and tells the true story of a Holocaust survivor who brought a case against the Austrian government to recover paintings stolen by the Nazis, the most famous of which was Gustav Klimt‘s "The Woman in Gold" aka "The Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I." This is certainly a lot quirkier and quippier than we were expecting, although there’s still some heart-stirring sentiment.
Co-starring Daniel Bruhl, "Woman In Gold" opens on April 25th. [THR]
I lived with Maria Altmann for almost four years up until her death in 2011. I can tell you with absolute certainty that it was NOT about the money! She sold the paintings because her legal bills were in the tens of millions of dollars. She never spent a dime of that money on herself; NOT A SINGLE DIME! She insisted on wearing clothes that were over 40 years old and being driven around in her 20 year old, beat up Ford Taurus with faded paint that we nicknamed the "Klimt-mobile".