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Technical details

APPROPIATE

2007 / 52min.

Rating5

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery and his uncompleted master-piece quickly became the most puzzling enigma of modern art. Fifty years later, can mathematician Hendrik Lenstra complete it? Should he?

Directors

Jean Bergeron

Actors

Denys Arcand

Joost Batenburg

M. C. Escher

François Bergeron

Hendrik Lenstra

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