Lost Leonardo, The

[Opens Aug. 27 in theaters.] Andreas Koefoed's educational, enlightening, fascinating, behind-the-scenes, well-paced, 90-minute documentary that consists of insightful, expert commentary by art conservator Dianne Dwyer Modestini, art dealers (such as Alexander Parish, Robert Simon, and Warren Adelson), curator Luke Syson, art critics Jerry Saltz and Kenny Schacter, global art services executive Evan Beard, FBI art crime team founder Robert K. Wittman, writer Alexandra Bregman, art historians Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann and Didier Rykner, Swiss businessman Yves Bouvier, journalists Antoine Harari and Georgina Adam, and Leonardo Da Vinci experts Martin Kemp, Maria Teresa Fiorio, and Frank Zöllner to explore the authenticity of the alleged Leonardo Da Vinci Salvator Mundi painting that was surprisingly discovered in New Orleans in 2005 and then after its painstaking restoration and hype in the lucrative art world to up the sale price, it eventually sold for $450 million to a mysterious collector.
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