I saw "Woman in Gold" and had to walk for an hour to recover

[drwex]

Over Labor Day weekend I went to visit the girlfriend and see her new place. One morning's plans got torpedo'ed because she wasn't feeling well so we stayed in and watched a movie. We sort of picked "Woman in Gold" because it was something I'd wanted to see and missed in theaters and she's lived in Germany and knows a lot about history so we

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[davidfcooper]

I share your appreciation of the film and Mirren's performance. My reaction at the end was different, almost like a sports fan when hir team wins but also with a sense of justice being done. As a Jewish New Yorker and museum goer who has seen Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer at the Neue Galerie I felt, yes, its present home is where it belongs, not Vienna. If you haven't seen it and the rest of the collection try to get to it when you're in NY.

[mizarchivist]

I had to bail out due to how intense it was. I tried... but geez. Ascikitty looked at the 2-3 sentence summary on the DVD slip case and noped out at "Nazi." I can hardly blame her.

So, yeah. A walk after sounds about right.

[drwex]

I think if I'd been warned I would have been OK. Expectation mismatch.

I'm not sorry the film covered the material the way it did - the story of Ms. Altmann's fight is not just about one person regaining a (fantastically valuable) painting but it's about a person (who happens to be a woman, so yay for that) asserting control over her life and reclaiming her past and whatever she can of her family relationships from the people (all men, it is noted) who took that from her.