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Wikipedia article




{{Infobox film

| name = Ruben Brandt, Collector

| image = Ruben Brandt, Collector poster.jpg

| alt =

| caption =

| native_name =

| director =

| producer =

* Pter Miskolczi

* Hermina Roczkov

* Radmila Roczkov

*

* Milorad Krsti

| writer = Milorad Krsti

| screenplay =

* Milorad Krsti

* Radmila Roczkov

| starring =

* Ivn Kamars

* Csaba "Kor" Mrton

* Gabriella Hmori

* Matt Devere

* Henry Grant

* Christian Nielson Buckholdt

* Katalin Dombi

* Paul Bellantoni

* Geoffrey Thomas

| music = Tibor Cri

| cinematography =

| editing =

* Milorad Krsti

* Marcell Lszl

* Danijel Daka Miloevi

* Lszlo Wimmer

| production_companies = Ruben Brandt LLC

| distributor = Sony Pictures Classics (United States)

| released =

| runtime = 94 minutes

| country = Hungary

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

'Ruben Brandt, Collector' is a 2018 Hungarian animated crime thriller directed by . It is the first feature film of the Slovenian-born director, who previously won a Silver Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1995. The film tells the story of a psychotherapist who enlists creative thieves to steal the paintings that are haunting his dreams.

Paintings depicted in the movie



The film depicts the following thirteen paintings that haunted Ruben Brandt:

*Frdric Bazille Portrait of Renoir (1867)

*Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus (c. 1486)

*Hans Holbein the Younger Portrait of Antoine, Prince of Lorraine (c.1543)

*Frank Duveneck [https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-whistling-boy-frank-duveneck-american-b-1848-d-1919/gQGJgu9rrvUWhA?hl=en Whistling Boy (1872)]

*Paul Gauguin [https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-gauguin/woman-holding-a-fruit-1893 Woman Holding A Fruit (1893)]

*Vincent van Gogh Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin (1888)

*Edward Hopper Nighthawks (1942)

*Ren Magritte The Treachery of Images (1929)

*douard Manet Olympia (1863)

*Pablo Picasso [https://www.wikiart.org/en/pablo-picasso/woman-with-book-1932 Woman with book (1932)]

*Tiziano Vecellio Venus of Urbino (1538)

*Diego Velzquez Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress (1659)

*Andy Warhol Elvis l, ll (1964)

Awards and accolades



In 2018, the film received Annie Awards nominations in two categories, Best Animated Independent Feature and Editorial in an Animated Feature Production. The film received awards at the following film festivals:

* Bucharest International Animation Film Festival (Anim'est) (2018): Best Feature Film

* Seville European Film Festival (2018): Best Screenplay Award; Art Cinema Award

* Trieste Film Festival (2019): Sky Arte Award

* Anima - The Brussels Animation Film Festival (2019): BeTV Award for Best Animated Feature of the Official Selection

* World Festival of Animated Film Animafest Zagreb (2019): Grand Prix, Feature Film

Reception



On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has score based on reviews, with an average of . The site's critical consensus reads, "Ruben Brandt, Collector is flawed from a storytelling standpoint, but the eye-catching animation is more than enough to make this offbeat thriller well worth watching."

References




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