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From the director of CINEMA PARADISO comes a romantic thriller with a playful side that proves love is worth bidding on at any price. When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman (Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush) to evaluate her late parents collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic employer. Co-starring Donald Sutherland (THE HUNGER GAMES) and Jim Sturgess (CLOUD ATLAS), director Giuseppe Torn tore's THE BEST OFFER is a unique take on a seemingly doomed romance from one of cinema's greatest artists.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
Item model number : 28929876
Director : Giuseppe Tornatore
Media Format : Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Multiple Formats
Run time : 2 hours and 11 minutes
Release date : April 29, 2014
Actors : Philip Jackson, Gerhard Haller, Alison Adam, John Benfield, Luke Charles
Producers : Arturo Paglia
Studio : Mpi Home Video
ASIN : B00GS08Y3Q
Number of discs : 1
Reviewer: JD
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Brilliant silence thriller!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed it; such masterful storytelling.This movie serves as a lesson that dishonesty and greed can cause our own demise, and that emotions can be contrived, particularly love, because it is the greatest tool used for entrapment.In as much as the auctioneer (Virgil) was conning buyers in his auction scheme to acquire these valuable paintings, he failed to realize that he could also be the recipient of a scheme.The watch repair chap (Robert) was a brilliant con man, because he used Virgilâs greatest desire against him, which was his curiosity and intrigue for complex objects. Once Virgil was drawn to the complexity of Claire, he became carelessly intrigued and unwittingly foolish.I am not sure which is worse, a young woman using her femininity to scam an elderly man or an elderly man who shamelessly lusts for a young woman old enough to be his daughter.Poor man, he lost all these women (the paintings) he possessed for many years because of his foolish attraction to one he could not possess.
Reviewer: Mr. Joel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Impressive original story
Review: I might have thought this was slow at times but I would have been wrong. I had great expectations when I saw the writer also was the director and they were exceeded by far! It is best not to try to describe this story but just to know that it has a great cast and it is very successful in telling its highly unusual tale!
Reviewer: Monkey House
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Worth the time investment!
Review: The plot is fairly predictable, but the acting and direction make this movie worth the wait and investment. Excellent acting all around. There are a few holes in the plot but if you can look past those, you are surely to enjoy the well thought out scam. I'd watch it again, just to enjoy the investment of the actors in making this come to life.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Intriguing
Review: Wonderful acting. Intriguing plot.DVD arrived new as advertised.
Reviewer: L
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Riveting English thriller ^^
Review: I could have sworn that Roman Polanski himself directed this film. The film has very Polanski and almost Lynch-like feel to it.A bit predictable, yet the film manages to keep you guessing till the vary last minute. A keen observant can foresee the ending because the director keeps on dropping clues throughout the movie as what is "really" going on. Geoffrey Rush is a remarkable actor, his face characteristic look very peculiar, I can only think of another actor with similar facial features and that is Gerard Depardieu.About the film:Virgil Oldman (Rush) is an eccentric introvert, who is a well known and praised English art collector and auctioneer.His distrust of people and arrogant nature lead him to have only two friends. One of them is an old artist (Sutherland) who frequents auction house where our hero works, and another one is a young artificer/fixer-upper (Strugess) to whom Virgil goes for all kinds of help. Virgil's life changes drastically when one day he is asked to appraise art collection of a young woman whose parents recently passed away and left her an old mansion with bunch of old art and furniture. The young woman suffers from a strange human-phobia. She locks herself in a room and refuses to be seen by anyone. This intrigues our hero to the point of obsession...
Reviewer: Lisa Emmett
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great movie
Review: Purchased dvd, arrived swiftly and played without an issue.
Reviewer: arthistoryguy
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting, But Fleeting...
Review: The Best Offer is a film at once unique in its ingredients but familiar in its recipe. I don't know... like a "hamburger" made with the rarest and best meats. (That's a terrible analogy, but there it is.) The film is both a satisfying bit of entertainment and a spotty attempt to reach a bit deeper. I enjoyed it while it lasted, but I don't have much extended praise to share.As an art collector, artist, art historian, and somewhat of a shut-in myself the film speaks to me on several superficial levels. I utterly adore the subject matter, I still find it deeply interesting, but that isn't quite enough. The parts seem to be greater than the sum.The world of buying, selling, and forging antiques has always been ripe for cinematic and literary imagination. It's a great juxtaposition: beauty and malice. This film fits into that lineage as a relatively cerebral and mysterious fiction; that is not to say it's particularly intelligent or especially imaginative, despite its efforts to be both. Being cerebral -- that is, existing largely around the emotions and behaviors of the central characters, as opposed to blunt action -- can be just as dumb as an explosion or a car chase at every turn... minus the thrill and with the added peril of pretentiousness.Done well, cerebral narratives are the best sort. They move us, but what's more, they offer explanations as to why we are moved in the first place. Unfortunately this film comes up short. At its core it's a basic heist drama and it winds up latching itself too faithfully to that metric. It's dressed in a promising and dizzying array of stops, starts, and meandering explorations of human nature but those are all just dressing for the same story repeated a million times. It's never particularly pretentious, although some aspects of the film grate the sensibilities: e.g. the bizarrely intelligent little person in the bar who serves as overbearing metaphor and narrative parallel; or the wealthy onlookers ogling at Virgil Oldman's gloves which he wears to protect himself from germs (gloves aren't odd, people wear them... why pretend otherwise?); or the fact that Robert appears to have a really great location for his tinkering shop but never seems to do anything... etc. But rather than embrace the stilted qualities of the main character, become mired in the melodrama of its risky plot devices, or succumb to the oft-vapid setting of the art and antiques world, the film is self-deprecating and critical enough of such things to be both party and convincing critic at the same time. At moments the film is about much more than art or selling it/obtaining it; it digs to the core of the human qualities that make great art so lasting and so financially valuable. But then it doesn't endeavor to illuminate its own findings. The film stops short, or it holds back, or it doesn't understand what to do with its big, human ideas. Perhaps this is why the disappointment is greater, for despite all of the careful construction the carry-through is so inevitable and anticlimactic that one begins to question what it was all for.The acting and technical filmic aspects of the movie are strong. Geoffrey Rush is a superb actor and he brings life to every role I've found him in -- this one proving no exception. His character is unsavory, but vulnerable; he's unsympathetic, but we manage still to dig up empathy for his circumstances.It's a movie about idiosyncrasies while managing itself to be disappointingly conventional. It's clear that the creators were aiming for more and they very well might have succeeded if they'd sacrificed a bit of style and convention. Like so many before it, The Best Offer is lost somewhere between style and substance... but the style is fun to indulge for the duration. It's a fine bit of entertainment, but sadly not much more.
Reviewer: Tomas
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Whodunit movie
Review: This movie will draw you in and keep you wondering where this is heading. Beautiful paintings.
Reviewer: Barry Zunneberg
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great film and actor lm very happy with the seller and product
Reviewer: dulette
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: j'avais vu ce film à sa sortie .. très proche de Geoffrey Rush lors de ses études théâtrales à Paris, fan absolue, j'ai tous ses films !celui çi éreinté par la critique est un film étrange, doté d'un scénario fabuleux, de décors magiques et poétiques ....Un film comme on en fait plus ... j'adore !
Reviewer: Colin.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The dvd quality is excellent
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: An amazing film!!!
Reviewer: totor
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Ce film est un chef d'oeuvre sur tous les plans. On y trouvera une intrigue passionnante, des acteurs magnifiques, des décors et une musique fascinante mais surtout une lecture possible à différents niveaux ce qui en fait un travail magistral.