National Gallery takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. National Gallery is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film.
Festivals & Awards
Directors’ Fortnight 2014
Press
Frederick Wiseman sets his sights on one of Great Britain’s most famous museums in this Cannes-selected documentary.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frederick Wiseman turns his gaze on a museum for the first time with this portrait of the great London institution.
Variety
Frederick Wiseman’s Heady, Nourishing Art Doc ‘National Gallery’.
Indiwire
The latest long-form documentary from the veteran film-maker is illuminating both because of and despite its reverent intimacy with its subject.
The Guardian
