The Lost Leonardo

Name: The Lost Leonardo
Genre: Drama
Released: August 13, 2021
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Alexandra Bregman, Dianne Dwyer Modestini, Doug Patteson, Georgina Adam, Kenny Schacter

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: August 13, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexandra Bregman, Dianne Dwyer Modestini, Doug Patteson, Georgina Adam, Kenny Schacter, Martin Kemp, Robert K. Wittman

Summary: The Lost Leonardo tells the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million, claimed to be a long-lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. From the moment it is purchased from a shady New Orleans auction house, and its buyers discover masterful brushstrokes beneath its cheap restoration, the fateThe Lost Leonardo tells the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million, claimed to be a long-lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. From the moment it is purchased from a shady New Orleans auction house, and its buyers discover masterful brushstrokes beneath its cheap restoration, the fate of the Salvator Mundi is driven by an insatiable quest for fame, money and power. But as its price soars, so do questions about its authenticity. Is this multi-million dollar painting actually by Leonardo – or do certain power players simply want it to be? [IFC Films]… Expand

Director: Andreas Koefoed

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Karen Gordon

Aug 24, 2021

Koefoed’s stylishly made film takes its time, gives everyone their due, and leaves us with some profoundly interesting questions. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Aug 12, 2021

The Lost Leonardo is the first art-world documentary I’ve seen that captures what art becomes once it goes through the looking glass of greed: not just a commodity, but a way of transferring and manipulating power. It’s enough to make the Mona Lisa stop smiling. Read full review

Annabel Aguiar

Aug 17, 2021

The ultimate strength of The Lost Leonardo is its inspection of how society reveres and seeks out capital, the real driving force behind the pushes and pulls acted upon the Salvator Mundi. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Aug 12, 2021

It’s a dizzying tale. And whether or not you believe “Salvator Mundi” to be a real Leonardo, it’s ultimately a disgusting one. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Sep 10, 2021

As with all documentaries about art, we are left uneasily wondering if the galleries of the world are full of “wrong attributions” or straight-up fakes. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 31, 2021

Obscene wealth, the gauche, unsophisticated rich, “experts” with agendas, “free port” storage and insane amounts of money float by under the unblinking gaze of an Italo-European Jesus, “Salvator Mundi” but still “not even a good painting.” Read full review

Chris Barsanti

Jun 14, 2021

The Lost Leonardo deals less with absolutes than fungible notions of perception and power. Read full review

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rl168x

Dec 2, 2021

Wow. The way they dissected it was so good. Leonardo's works are all interesting and this movie about one of them is truly one of a kind.

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