The restoration of the Sistine Chapel. Five hundred years of candle soot, incense smoke, pollution, and previous restoration attempts ha dulled the frescoes. Mounted on the restorers’ scaffolding, the cameras closely follow the meticulous cleaning of the lunettes – 14 semicircular frescoes on the sides of the chapel. Far from the solemn and shadowy painter he has always been taken for, Michelangelo is being residcovered as a bold colorist who painted with astonishing subtlety and skill. 52 min.