Speechless.
This film slowly takes you in, then drags you into a continuous chess game.
At first, the story is told so elegantly that you'd never think he could actually steal the painting.
You trust him, you relax... and yet, spoilers, that's just the beginning.
Pierce Brosnan, what can I say... he has that absurd look and charm, the same one we later saw in James Bond: elegant, confident, always one step ahead.
It's precisely that look that confuses you, because he seems calm, but in reality he's controlling everything. (From beginning to end, of course.)
The film is brilliant because it tricks you several times: when they catch the thieves and you think it's over, he enters the room and steals the painting in two seconds. You're like: AH, how come?
Then there's the scene halfway through the film where she's convinced she's found the painting... and again he tricks her.
It's a continuous, elegant mockery.
The incredible thing is that the painting actually remains in the museum forever: the alarm, the fire extinguisher, the chaos serve only to distract. The real coup isn't the theft, but the illusion.
Even the way the protagonist plays with appearances in the final scene, with the idea of everyone being the same, anonymous, using the character from Magritte's painting "Le fils de l'homme" to disappear before everyone's eyes.
And then the final coup: when she actually steals a painting, and it's the one she said in the first scenes: "If I had to steal something, I'd steal this"...
WOW, really wow.
givliadistefano
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