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Rating: 7/10 (29 June 2015)

Woman in Gold
The worst thing about growing old is everyone starts to dispute that it's you in all of your portraits.
Facial recognition, however, isn't imperative in this drama – proof of ownership is.
Made aware of the fact that the portrait of her aunt that was stolen by the Nazis is now hanging in an Austrian gallery, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren) hires an inexperienced lawyer, Randy Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds), to repossess it for her.
With assistance from a journalist (Daniel Brühl), they challenge Austria's ownership of Gustav Klimt's The Woman in Gold in court, but turn up short each time.
It's not until they contest proprietorship on US soil do they see results.
An intriguing and inspiring true account of retribution, Woman in Gold may lag with numerous wartime flashbacks but the outcome is still an edifying one.
Unfortunately, the Nazis vandalized Woman in Gold by painting a Hitler moustache on her.
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