A melancholy, elegant and mysterious/cryptic story. I'd have to read it a few times to really "get" the whole story but even one read is enough to drink in some very interesting, layered characters and storyline. Well worth my time, and will likely haunt my thoughts for longer than most of graphic novels. Thanks Immomens!

Summary: "Moving Pictures is the story of the awkward and dangerous relationship between curator Ila Gardner and officer Rolf Hauptmann...set in World War II while the Nazis were pillaging much of Europe's great art collections."Thematically, this is a work about art that has gone missing. It is also a work about people who have gone missing. And it is a work about a lot of things that are left unsaid between the story's two main players. I cannot think of a better use of all the heavy, negative...

Stark black and white story with a noir feel by the Immonens, who typically work in superhero comics. They typically do all this bombastic splashy stuff, and then this. This, Moving Pictures, is elliptical, restrained, all angles and negative space and so much left unsaid. It’s the story of the dangerous relationship between Canadian curator Ila Gardner and officer Rolf Hauptmann, member of Germany's Military Art Commission. It’s the time of the French Resistance, and the art world is scrambling...

"Moving Pictures" offers a stark corrective to romantic/heroic narratives surrounding the French Resistence. Here, our Canadian and French protagonists are crippled by doubt and dread, and their noble intentions are constantly battling their saner instincts for self-preservation. The Nazi war machine is represented not by tanks or bombs or men with guns, but by coldly efficient bureaucrats - men who are just so bored by the fact that much of their job involves making undesirable people disappear...

Some of the art was good (mostly the representations of real art)... but basically, if you're gonna have a noir story about the fate of famous art in World War II, make it a exploration of the ethical questions or a cheesy mystery, not both. Or if you are going to do that, be Jason. This book took itself too seriously, and it wasn't fun. Oh well.

The artwork, on the whole, was atmospheric but I felt that this book was trying too hard to be "literary" and it failed. The story was too bland to be literary and just too opaque to be interesting. All in all it was pictorial but hardly moving.

I enjoyed this story of the clash of two people, each trying to 'save' art for his/her own side, during the madness of the German occupation of France during WWII. The questions of what is important, and why, are just a few of the dilemmas raised. The story is a reminder of how many 'small' individual stories existed within the greater scope of that time period. I found the ending to be both powerful and poignant.

For the most part, the Immonen work* I've read has been at the more openly outlandish end of Marvel; from Nextwave to Patsy Walker's solo series, they tend to revel in colourful craziness. This creator-owned graphic novel could hardly be more different. It's a spare, slow story of occupied France, in which whole monochrome pages pass with one woman sitting and one man standing in a single dark room. The people are expressively cartooned, a few lines all they need to come alive; the backgrounds a...

Until I read Daytripper a day later, Moving Pictures was almost certainly the best comic I'd read in the last year. The Immonens share a kind of creative chemistry that generates some of the most worthwhile comics to be produced (see: Never As Bad As You Think. Granted, for the most part, comics have only been producing worthwhile works in the last twenty years, so the competition is a bit limp compared to other media.That said, Moving Pictures is a fantastic little book. A novella of sorts, exp...

I liked the starkness of the text, and the concept of the two protagonists, who were also antagonists, yet also in a relationship. I thought the drawing was great. One slight criticism: The pages for some reason seemed to stick together - maybe due to humidity? Or a poor quality of paper? The cover itself was well-done - heavy, textured paper. I thought the story was somewhat cryptic - was the crux of the story really about Ila and Marc or Ila and Hauptmann or Ila and her room-mate? And Ila's ch...

It's weird, I really enjoyed reading this book--it was a delight from panel to panel--but after I'd finished I really couldn't decide how I felt about it. I've never read a graphic novel that I'll have to read again because, in the last few pages, my perspective on the story had changed so much. I knew the concept of cataloging and hiding a country's historical art treasures during WWII was only the setting, but I found that concept so engaging that I didn't look for the real story. And you real...

Nicely done, restrained story and stark visuals. I wish it had been a bit longer, and also that there had been some color panels in the style of the cover.

Read for the situation of the protagonists during the time the book is set in and for the wonderful, nothing less than stunning illustrations that use shadows in a way I have never experienced before in a graphic novel.

The Nazis looted a buncha art from France during the Occupation. Museum Curator Ila, along with others, hides as many pieces as she can – “Moving Pitchers” around, oooohhh, I gets the title now!! – before she’s caught and interrogated by her German Nazi boyfriend - or someone anyway. And then the book’s over… ? I didn’t rate Kathryn Immonen as even a halfway-decent writer before and she hasn’t changed my mind with her badly-written comic drawn by her hubby Stuart, Moving Pictures. This book is

Beautiful, moving, and somewhat quiet for a World War II book. There's much that's implied, without being stated outright. The voice of the main character, Ila, is sharp, even acerbic, sometimes bitter and sometimes resigned. The art is wonderful, with simple lines and strong shadows. A very brief but powerful book.

Beautifully produced. Historical fiction about caretakers of art in Paris during World War II. Black and white art, with distinctly different art styles for the characters and the art pieces. But I wanted more. I wanted more gooshy detail, more background, more explicit explaining about who these people were, what they were actually doing with the art. This is a fascinating topic, and a really interesting period of history and I want this story told, but I feel like the manner of this piece is j...

So I read this and I enjoyed it but I was quite sure at the end that I'd missed something very significant. So I read it again (it's short) and that didn't help. So I had my husband read it and he was equally perplexed. So then I read a handful of reviews, relying in particular on Douglas Wolk. And my conclusion is that I didn't miss anything. The book simply disregards formula and has a misleading official description hinting at cliches that don't exist. So then I felt much better about both it...

It was ok. Mostly because of the artwork which I liked, cuz I'm a sucker for B&W artwork but not that much to go over 2 stars.Story-wise, it was a bit confusing, a bit empty, and a bit meh.. nothing that got me interested in reading it with much joy.And whatever likeness there was it was all lost halfway through.. I love reading about a story that's historical and whatnot, that has to do with some woman that's trying to move art and/or get back stuff that the Nazis stole from France that France

This is a graphic novel by a Husband and Wife team. Kathryn Immonen writing and Stuart as the artist. Very simplistic art, very straight forward when it comes to the words said by a character and why that matters is make clear as the book progresses. Without giving anything important away, the book is set in about early to late 1940, maybe for late 1940 as he book takes places after Germany's invasion of France. The main characters are a Canadian curator working in France who is cataloging and t...

Set during WWII, the story focuses on a woman named Ila Gardner who works as a curator for the Louvre Museum in Paris. She's working to catalog, save and hide as much of the Louvre's collection as possible before the city is taken over by the Nazis. There are two basic timelines to this story. The earlier tale shows Ila's early work to save the collection as she meets and enters into a relationship with the a German officer named Rolf. In the later tale Rolf's duties have forced him to arrest Il...