Auction
Date : Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Duration : 1 hours 31 minutes
Confident modern art appraiser André Masson is as cool and collected in his work as he is with his ex-partner Bettina (Léa Drucker, Last Summer). When he uncovers a long-lost Egon Schiele masterpiece, his carefully controlled world is suddenly disrupted.

Auction
This closely observed drama, for which [the French director Pascal Bonitzer] also penned the script, follows André Masson (Alex Lutz), a modern art appraiser who works for an auction house. As boldly assured in his professional expertise as he is unflaggingly cool and collected with his colleagues—including his ex-partner Bettina (Léa Drucker, Last Summer), with whom he maintains a careful friendship—André’s routine is unexpectedly disrupted by the discovery of a long-lost work by Egon Schiele, a masterpiece that had gone missing decades earlier following its confiscation by Nazi officials.
Initially skeptical that any such undiscovered painting could still be recovered, André grows convinced of its authenticity—but the ramifications for his career, as well as his contentious relationship with his intern Aurore (Louise Chevillotte), are unexpected and transformative.
- Dir. Pascal Bonitzer | 2024 | France | 91 minutes
- Narrative
- French with English subtitles