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Old 01-15-2015, 12:15 PM
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The art of film: galleries in the movies
From National Gallery to Skyfall, Anne Billson looks at the greatest film scenes set in art galleries

The most beautiful art gallery sequence, on the other hand, is surely the first ten minutes of Dario Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome, a title inspired by a real psychosomatic disorder (named after the French writer, who suffered from it) whereby great works of art make the sufferer swoon. The horror director's daughter Asia, somewhat miscast as a detective who suffers from the syndrome, is on the track of a serial killer in Florence, and pops into the famous Uffizi Gallery. Big mistake.
Botticelli's Primavera and Caravaggio's Medusa, two of the museum's most celebrated works, make her feel dizzy before she faints in front of Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (to be found, in real life, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Brussels) and imagines she's actually inside the painting. It's one of the strangest and most beautiful sequences Argento ever directed, though unless you're a hardcore horror fan it's probably best not to watch any further, since the film later gets bogged down in unpleasantness.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...he-movies.html
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