Portrait of Wally, Egon Schiele's tender picture of his mistress, Walburga ("Wally") Neuzil, is the pride of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. But for 13 years the painting was locked up in New York, caught in a legal battle between the Austrian museum and the Jewish family from whom the Nazis seized the painting in 1939. Portrait of Wally traces the history of this iconic image - from Schiele's gesture of affection toward his young lover, to the theft of the painting from Lea Bondi, a Jewish art dealer fleeing Vienna for her life, to the post-war confusion and subterfuge that evoke The Third Man, to the surprise resurfacing of "Wally" on loan to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1997. -- (C) Official Site
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Release Date : May 11, 2012 Limited
Mpaa Rating : Unrated Genre Movie :Documentary,Special Interest
Actors For Portrait of Wally
Hildegard Bachert,Andre Bondi,David d'Arcy,Judith Dobrzynski,Hector Feliciano,Tom L. Freudenheim,Thomas Geldmacher,Bonnie Goldblatt,Ashton Hawkins,Mari-Claudia Jimenez,Jane Kallir,Larry Kaye,Raymond Kelly,Tom Kline,Willi Korte,David Korzenik,Elizabeth Leopold,Hannah Lessing,Sharon Levin Cohen,Sophie Lillie
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User Ranting Movie Portrait of Wally : 3.8
User Percentage For Portrait of Wally : 71 %
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All Critics Ranting For Portrait of Wally : 7.2
All Critics Count For Portrait of Wally : 30
All Critics Percentage For Portrait of Wally : 90 %
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An account of greed, betrayal, culpability and self-serving moral relativism.
Geoff Pevere-Globe and Mail Although the film at times moves through the evidence at an impossibly fast clip, the response of MoMa will doubtlessly resonate.
Lavanya Ramanathan-Washington Post It's a fascinating story, even as Shea's film sometimes tells it in a slightly convoluted way.
Moira MacDonald-Seattle Times By showing how difficult and problematic righting a wrong can turn out to be, "Portrait of Wally" does itself proud.
Kenneth Turan-Los Angeles Times The material's not so rich and complex that the documentary doesn't feel padded at 90 minutes.
Mark Feeney-Boston Globe A painting's provenance matters, and so does this portrait of Portrait of Wally.
Michael Phillips-Chicago Tribune The story is compelling, and the fallout of the 13-year legal battle over Portrait of Wally not only established important legal precedence regarding art looted from Holocaust victims, but also caused some soul-searching in the museum world.
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin-Austin American-Statesman The journey of the painting, and the Bondi family's efforts to reclaim it, are the meaty subject of Andrew Shea's engrossing documentary.
Norman Wilner-NOW Toronto The film's troubling take on the moral flexibilities of the art world may also have viewers wondering about the provenance of what they see on museum walls.
Jason Anderson-The Grid For such a winding, research-heavy piece, Portrait of Wally moves at a brisk clip, with Gary Lionelli's agitated score lending the film the breathless quality of a police procedural.
Kimberley Jones-Austin Chronicle Portrait of Wally reminds us that nearly 70 years after the war, some lessons of the Holocaust have yet to sink in.
Daniel M. Kimmel-The Jewish Advocate Wally sputters to an unremarkable conclusion.
Miles Howard-Boston Phoenix ...the journey of just one of many, many thousands of Nazi plundered art works and its rightful return to its owner.
Robin Clifford-Reeling Reviews ...would make a great double bill with "The Art of the Steal," another documentary which exposes the ruthless greed and obsessions which power the world of public art exhibition.
Laura Clifford-Reeling Reviews A complex legal controversy is made enthralling and not infrequently shocking.
Mark R. Leeper-Mark Leeper's Reviews Intricate documentary about stolen art is presented as if it were a thriller.
Dennis Schwartz-Ozus' World Movie Reviews In chronicling the law case, the film also provides a fascinating profile of the lives of Schiele, Wally and Lea Bondi, and of Vienna's cultural ambiance pre-World War II.
Jennifer Merin-About.com Whatever might happen in future, however, the film underlines that the Wally case made this much very clear: rich people look out for themselves and bully others.
Cynthia Fuchs-PopMatters As Shea's film approaches its conclusion, a wonderful and unexpected sense of empathy suddenly materializes.
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