Golden story hits the silver screen
Photos courtesy of M Pictures
Did you know
In 2006, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I set a record price for a painting when it sold for $135 million (44 billion baht).
Directed by Simon Curtis, Woman in Gold is an engaging new drama based on a remarkable true story of one woman’s journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to her family.
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), sets out to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Gustav Klimt’s famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds), Maria embarks on a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the US Supreme Court. Along the way, Maria is forced to confront some difficult truths about the past.
Catch the exciting true drama when Woman in Gold hits local cinemas on April 23.
Vocabulary
- golden (n): special; wonderful
engaging (adj): interesting or pleasant in a way that attracts your attention
remarkable (adj): unusual or surprising in a way that causes people to take notice
plucky (adj): having a lot of courage and determination
embark on (phrasal v): to start to do something new or difficult
