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Based on a true story and adapted from Robert M. Edsel’s The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, the film stars Clooney as George Stout, a man who starts up the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives program, which was founded in order to save pre-WWII art and other cultural artifacts from Adolf Hitler and the property-destroying Nazis. His team is comprised of Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, Jean Dujardin and Bill Murray. Cate Blanchett stars as Rose Valland, a member of the French Resistance and military who accounted for all of the French art that the Nazis stole and destroyed.
This is the second film to document these events, following John Frankenheimer’s 1964 war drama The Train, and Clooney has his work cut out for him if he wants Monuments Men to be the superior film. I tell you what though, the poster for The Train was a lot more exciting.
