Woman in Gold

Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: April 1, 2015

7.2	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 112 Ratings

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airxsonNov 23, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. the facts, as presented in the movie.

the old jewish woman claimed she wasn't doing it for the money, but for justice.

she said the museum claimed that her aunt donated the painting to them in her will, but that she had never confirmed that, because she had never seen the will herself, nor did her jewish attorney.

then, they found the will and confirmed it was genuine. she & her

attorney both found out that the museum was telling the truth. it was
indeed her aunt's wishes that the painting be donated to the museum--a
place in the public view, in austria (her aunt's birthplace), and as a gift to the austrian people and the rest of the world, if they visited the museum.

the painting was considered by the austrian people to be one of their most beloved artworks.

through a technicality initiated by her jewish attorney, the old jewish woman
got the painting back, took it out of austria, sold it to a private
investor for $130 million and kept the money. and when she died, she
kept the money in her jewish family by willing all of it back to her immediate relatives.

she overrode her aunt's final wishes, removed the painting from the
museum and kept the money for herself & her family members.

but, again, as the old jewish woman said in the movie--it's not about the money.

sure it isn't. sure it isn't.… Expand

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jeanrenoir13Apr 17, 2015

MIrren's excellent as always, and the whole cast is good enough (wasting the great Danny Bruhl, but whatever). The production values are great, in the "quality picture" tradition. And it's hard not to be moved at times. But the whole movie isMIrren's excellent as always, and the whole cast is good enough (wasting the great Danny Bruhl, but whatever). The production values are great, in the "quality picture" tradition. And it's hard not to be moved at times. But the whole movie is ultimately an incredibly shameless machine for emotional manipulation and beating the dead horse of Nazi evil for the easiest effects imaginable. In fact, the hard truth is that the movie's this year's annual Holocaust movie clearly made by the Israel Lobby neocon wing of Hollywood to keep the American masses Pavlovian suckers for "Never again!" so that when the neocons roll it out again to con the American masses into supporting Tom Cotton's proxy war for Israel for "regime change" in Iran, the suckers will bite yet again, in an uncontrollable reflex that has been brilliantly drilled into them by Israel Lobby Hollywood for so many years now for just such an occasion. The attention to Pavlovian detail is such that they've made the heroine father look just like Stefan Zweig! How's that for tugging at the heartstrings of the literate, the ones most in danger of dismissing the movie for its shameless manipulations. Nothing is harder to make a good film about than the Holocaust, because any work of art has to avoid cliches and stock responses like the plague. Manipulative schlock like Woman in Gold does NOTHING but trade in both. It looks so good, and Mirren's such a good actress that the film might strike the unwary as better than it is. But Stephen Holden's 30 ranking for the Times nails it for what it is: crowd-pleasing junk.… Expand

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gatorsrockApr 22, 2015

not the movie to see, save your money and see something else at the theaters. Not very interesting and will not keep your attention. Very disappointing.

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