The Guardian view on art heists: don’t believe the Hollywood hype | Editorial

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Audacious robberies are a staple of popular culture. But for museums, crimes like this week’s theft of two Renoirs are an existential threatMarc Allégret’s 1956 comedy Plucking the Daisy stars a young Brigitte Bardot as a first-time author who breaks into the Balzac house museum in Paris under the mistaken impression that her brother lives there. The plot revolves around her unwitting theft of an extremely rare book – and performance of a striptease in a desperate effort to raise the cash to buy