Is Chimes at Midnight a work of art? Absolutely.
Does it belong in The Louvre? Certainly — and you can see it there this month.
The late Orson Welles’ cinematic adaptation of several Shakespearean plays will be screened at the prestigious Paris art museum on November 24.
The film is being shown in the Louvre auditorium as part of an exhibition called The Theater of Power.
According to The Louvre’s website, the movie is a “dazzling reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s text [and] appears as a metaphor for the artist in the face of power.
Chimes at Midnight will be introduced by Jean-Christophe Ferrari, a teacher of cinema aesthetics and critic at the magazine Positif.
Other films being screened include Ran by Akira Kurosawa, Michael Cacoyannis’ Electra and Julius Caesar by Joseph Mankiewicz.
Janus Films / The Criterion Collection re-released an acclaimed restoration of Chimes at Midnight to U.S. theaters and issued on Blu-ray and DVD last year.
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