Name: Moving Pictures
ISBN: 9781603090490

Stuart Immonen

Kathryn Immonen

Ila Gardner, a curator in Nazi-occupied France, attempts to protect their art treasures from Germany by hiding them in the museum's poorly documented basement, until she is interrogated by the curiously sympathetic Rolf Hauptmann.

Moving Pictures

Dimitris Papastergiou

It was ok. Mostly because of the artwork which I liked, cuz I'm a sucker for B&W artwork but not that much to go over 2 stars.

Story-wise, it was a bit confusing, a bit empty, and a bit meh.. nothing that got me interested in reading it with much joy.

And whatever likeness there was it was all lost halfway through.. 

I love reading about a story that's historical and whatnot, that has to do with some woman that's trying to move art and/or get back stuff that the Nazis stole from France that France stole from Greece (even though there was no mention of that, and there were much attention to its art pieces), although to be fair, there weren't much info or details or names or when and wheres etc. But to always be like France this and France that, and no mention of the already stolen pieces of art?! 

But when you mention stuff that gets drawn to a whole page (like Venus de Milo) and your main concern is how they stole that and how to get it back for example, and move it over to the other country, well, you might wanna mention what that is and where's from and hey, they're stealing the stolen goods that were already stolen. 

Other than that, that that's a personal quirk I guess, cuz I don't want to force my ideas on anyone, my main problem was mostly that it was a read about the lives of random people for no reason, interactions that have little to no meaning to the confusing main story that I half the time didn't get. 

Maybe I'm stupid, maybe it wasn't depicting things the way it was supposed to. The scene the dialogue the whatever. No places, not even what year it was at the beginning of the story. Nothing. The main thing here is I lost interest halfway through the thing and I gave up, and just skimmed the rest.

Moving Pictures

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