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08/10/2014 Documentary 2h 54m
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Overview

A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the Gallery's visitors. The film portrays the role of the curators and conservators; the education, scientific, and conservation departments; and the audience of all kinds of people who come to experience it.

  1. Frederick Wiseman

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Leanne Benjamin

  2. Kausikan Rajeshkumar

  3. Jo Shapcott

  4. Edward Watson

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Reviews

A review by tmdb28039023
Written by tmdb28039023 on 2022-09-03
If you can visit the National Gallery in London personally, more power to you. For those of us who can’t, though, National Gallery is the next best thing. As is par for the course in a Frederick Wiseman doc, we learn a lot about the subject matter, and we do it by smosis; not in scripted interviews, but like any other museum visitor; i.e., listening to the guides, whom Wiseman allows to go on at length to better recreate the real experience.

Additionally, as he is also wont to do, Wiseman peeks behind the scenes at the internal mechanism of the institution; in this case, the backstage loo...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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