Museum Hours

I'm not sure I could answer the question posed in the title to this blog any better having seen this film. Indeed I suspect it is one of those questions about which only someone on their third joint and attending the kind of conference at which this film is set would even muse. However, anyone prepared to give up 90 minutes of their time should be well rewarded and gently amused by this brilliantly conceived and realised piece - a saline drip of droll humour on very slow release. The development in the early 1980s of chess programmes capable of competing against real people is used as a starting point for all sorts amusing insights and hallucinations. Indeed the film is as much concerned with hallucinations as anything else. A number of the characters see these as having almost permanent effects and there is a bravura sequence involving a machine increasingly seeming to question the programmer rather than the other way round which finishes with a glimpse of an embryo 'i