Real life rarely delivers us a perfectly cinematic news story, but recently, we got a modern art heist so daring and brazen that it has the whole world rapt.The Louvre heist was a daylight robbery on Oct. 19, resulting in the theft of jewelry worth millions. The culprits used a truck-mounted ladder and power tools to break into the Galerie d'Apollon. In a matter of minutes, they stole eight pieces of Napoleonic jewelry, including items belonging to Empress Eugénie and Queen Hortense, before disappearing on scooters. If you've been following the news and enjoying the memes, refreshing for updates on whether French authorities will catch the thieves before the jewels get melted down, you're probably hungry for more heist stories. Cinema has been feeding our fascination with art theft for decades. These are seven films (and one book) you'll enjoy if the Louvre heist has you hooked.The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt) - YouTube www.youtube.com Let's start with the most recent entry, a movie I loved, which just hit theaters last week. Kelly Reichardt's take on the art heist film is about as far as possible from the dazzle and jazz of Ocean's Eleven. Set in 1970s Massachusetts, it follows J.B. Mooney, an unemployed husband and father who decides to rob a local art museum. He's a terrible thief, though, and bumbles through the aftermath.Reichardt was inspired by the 1972 robbery of the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, in which two Gauguins, a Picasso, and a Rembrandt were stolen. As she told...
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