THE LOST LEONARDO

TBC FILM

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Stylishly shot in steely blues and as twisty as a thriller, this deepdiving, globetrotting doc investigates how a $1,175 New Orleans auction find became Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’, the most expensive painting ever sold. Pinning down every key player in sleek, candid interviews, director Andreas Koefoed adroitly uncovers bitter Old Master restoration rows, global money capers and roiling top-level political intrigue from Paris to the Middle East. And all triggered by a painting one critic scornfully labelled “a Mona Lisa drag act”. Kate Stables