Simon Curtis
Woman in Gold Review
The year is 1999. Maria Altmann is an octogenarian living in Los Angeles. In Austria, there is pressure on the government to make restitution to surviving Jewish families for artworks stolen in the Second World War. Altmann believes she could have a case. She emigrated to the USA in 1939 to escape the rise of the Nazis. Her family once owned several Klimt paintings, including one of her Aunt Adele...