Musei Vaticani 3D (2014)
An extraordinary voyage of discovery to see the most impressive collection of works of art built up over two thousand years of history. VATICAN MUSEUMS 3D, a SKY production in collaboration with the Vatican Museums Directorate, for the very first time brings Ultra HD 4K/3D film cameras inside the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel, to show the masterpieces in these collections as they have never been seen before.
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At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
This is a fairly interesting demonstration of 3-D filmmaking. There are many scenes of splashing water, flames or swirling dust, interspersed with several shots of a young man's face or hands. Other than a few long shots of two or three galleries, there is not much attention to the three-dimensional art or sculpture in the collection, and most of that involves close-ups of the Pieta, the Laocoön Group and a Roman torso. Murals and oil paintings get somewhat more attention and we have a quick look at Caravaggio's Descent from the Cross. There are brief inspections of some of the details in Rafael's School of Athens, of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment, but most if not all of the 'flat' art has been subjected to a 'three-dimensionalization' that I found disturbing. An online visit to the Vatican Museum would be a better choice.