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The First Monday in May (2016)

The First Monday in May poster
Directed by
Andrew Rossi
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
G
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 36 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows museum staff as they prepare a major fashion exhibit. It shows the planning and the opening night gala.

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What happens

The First Monday in May is a 2016 documentary film directed by Andrew Rossi. The film follows the creation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibit in history: the 2015 art exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass by curator Andrew Bolton at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The documentary was produced by Fabiola Beracasa Beckman, Dawn Ostroff and Sylvana Ward Durrett and distributed by Magnolia Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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