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"Lovely, powerful ... Cohen's discursive approach veers in and out of reality with a seamless rhythm. With a keen eye for the capacity of fine art to address a complex range of attitudes and experiences, MUSEUM HOURS effectively applies Cohen's existing strengths to a familiar scenario and rejuvenates it by delivering a powerfully contemplative look at the transformative ability of all art. On the one hand a sad, poignant character study, MUSEUM HOURS is also a treatise on art history and a love letter to architectural wonders." (Eric Kohn, INDIEWIRE)

"Life! Love! Art! MUSEUM HOURS is about all that and more. Perceptive, full of humor and kind-
ness. A film that makes you want to go out and walk, walk, walk, guided by the unspoken ‘Wahlverwandtschaft’ of two strangers; transcending the conventional moralities of time and space and unearthing the shattered structures that hold together history, politics, memory and their unseen connections." (Dana Linssen, DE FILMKRANT)

"The festival's most impressive American narrative film—matches an incisive disquisition on art and politics with an exquisite character-study. Almost effortlessly, Cohen weaves together the film's many conceptual threads: the narrative of a growing friendship between two solitary middle-aged people, carefully rendered by two non-professional actors, songwriter Mary Margaret O'Hara and Bobby Sommer; gray-hued fragments of a city symphony and love-letter to the neglected richness of detail in everyday life; and an intelligent disquisition on art, its historical relationship to class, and its role, in the hands of Flemish Renassiance painter Pieter Bruegel, as a kind of precursor to documentary realism." (Leo Goldsmith, MUBI, Locarno Film Fest Report)

"MUSEUM HOURS is a film about seeing, and a tribute to how art sharpens our perception of the world around us ... The greatest strength of MUSEUM HOURS is how Cohen is able to integrate the act of looking at paintings, sometimes into the narrative and sometimes through digressions, reminding us of the importance of really looking. An ode to museums, a discourse on visual literacy and a heartfelt story of two strangers finding each other." (Adam Cook, CINEMA SCOPE)
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