Auction

Name: Auction
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: October 29, 2025
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 75

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Menemsha Films | Release Date: October 29, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: When star Parisian auctioneer André (Alex Lutz) learns that a long-lost Egon Schiele painting looted by Nazis is hanging in a small town worker’s home, he pays a visit and verifies its authenticity… as well as its iniquitous wartime provenance. A race to navigate the thorny art world collides with a triangle of players including André’sWhen star Parisian auctioneer André (Alex Lutz) learns that a long-lost Egon Schiele painting looted by Nazis is hanging in a small town worker’s home, he pays a visit and verifies its authenticity… as well as its iniquitous wartime provenance. A race to navigate the thorny art world collides with a triangle of players including André’s mendacious intern, his savvy ex-wife/art appraiser (Léa Drucker), and the earnest worker caught unawares in a moral dilemma.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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Manohla Dargis

Oct 30, 2025

Bonitzer evinces an appreciable warmth toward his creations that you feel even from the analytic distance he establishes. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 30, 2025

Auction is good, underhanded fun, and even the loose ends that Bonitzer leaves hanging — perhaps this had a longer cut at some point — leave one uncertain about how this high-stakes poker game will play out or who might upend the table with not-quite-all-their-cards on it for that final hand. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Oct 30, 2025

Complicated enough to lose a casual viewer but never so convoluted that André and co. are sublimated into the system around them (which would have been fatal for a film so attuned to the relationship between personal interest and collective perception), Bonitzer’s plot spins forward at the speed of an auctioneer’s mouth until raw suspense becomes appropriately inextricable from meaningless gibberish. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Oct 30, 2025

Not everything on screen ultimately works here, with certain characters and situations more credible than others. But the director manages to spin a clever modern-day morality tale mixing art, social class and big bucks. Read full review

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