Movie Where Girl Is Alone in Mansion Marries a Man He Steals His Art Collection
Great
A picture rich in symbolism and pregnant, with a superb performance by Geoffrey Rush. Meliorate than average cinematography and a twist that keeps you thinking and considering the message long after the film has ended. (Tell me the statute Rush hides behind isn't a brilliant allegory for the entire moving-picture show! Brilliant!) The music gets loftier marks also. Highly recommended -- fifty-fifty if y'all're only looking for a proficient caper picture.
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Exciting as well every bit sensitive film well-nigh a master auctioneer who becomes obsessed with an extremely reclusive heiress
Interesting and enthralling picture with stirring drama , ravishing cinematography and moving musical score . An epic story of a human being who could do anything , except exist ordinary . A story centered on an eccentric auctioneer , a great art lover , and his obsession with a heiress/collector . Equally the successful auctioneer called Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) becomes deeply passionate nearly a mysterious adult female called Claire (Sylvia Hoakes) who suffers agoraphobia . Meantime , the fine art expert Virgil along with his younger friend , Robert (Jim Sturgess) , effort to remake an ancient automaton .
Colorful and moving film dealing with a solitary human being who punches boozer honey with a strange girl who resides at an Italian villa only attended by a handy human . The moving-picture show relies heavily on the complex relationship between an older man and a younger woman , but this does not become bored or spoils the tale . This captivating picture contains drama , intrigue , plot twists and nostalgia completely wrapped in an enjoyable dearest story between a solitary winner and a locked daughter . The story is narrated with great sense and sensibility , the intelligent screenplay was written by Giuseppe Tornatore himself . Slightly underrated simply splendid all the same time , the moving-picture show is both , enjoyable and entertaining , but overlong . Magnificent performance from Geoffrey Rush every bit virtuoso auctioneer who has never set his centre on real love , Jim Sturgess equally his best friend and Sylvia Hoakes as the gorgeous also as rare daughter . Good acting from remaining cast , just similar : Donald Sutherland , Dermot Crowley and Philip Jackson . Glowing cinematography in colorful scenarios and splendidly photographed past Flavio Zamarion who reflects marvelously the elegant restaurants , apartments , paintings , auction hall and many other things . Rousing and moving score musical by the veteran master and prolific Ennio Morricone who achieved a deserved David Di Donatello .
The flick was very well directed by Giuseppe Tornatore and won vi David Di Donatello awards , including Best Film and Best Managing director . Tornatore fabricated other similarly bonny films , including good actors , such as : the excellent ¨Movie theatre Paradise¨ with Philippe Noiret , ¨Malena¨ with Monica Belucci , ¨ The star maker¨ with Sergio Castellito , ¨Legend of 1900¨ or ¨The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean¨ with Tim Roth , and ¨Baaria¨ with Raoul Bova ; being his English-language debut characteristic titled ¨The professor¨ with Ben Gazzara . ¨The best offering¨ rating : Better than boilerplate , well worth watching for exceptional cinematography , first-charge per unit interim and wonderful score .
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Unique, intriguing and elegant. This is clearly the piece of work of experts.
The only Guiseppe Tornatore moving-picture show I've seen is Cinema Paradiso which is an accented masterpiece. It surprises me that he was but in his early 30s when he directed it as the film already showed the piece of work of an expert, given that his other films aren't equally notable. The Best Offering, with its tight screenplay, lush sets, brilliant performance past Geoffrey Rush and beautiful score by Ennio Morricone, also exemplifies the sophisticated expertise filmmaking. Information technology's refreshing to run into a film with a unique universe grounded in the civilization of our ain with some bizarrely specific themes. While my only complaint is that the dialogue has this very "written" quality about information technology that is most impossible to evangelize in a natural mode, it'south at least consistent throughout.
The story is constantly intriguing, held together by a Hitchcockian mystery feeling, and ever pays off in a unique fashion. I'm non one for "old human being and immature girl romance" stories equally they're rarely without uncomfortable perversion but The All-time Offering completely justifies it with its well developed characters and themes. Even so, what makes this motion-picture show and so special and strange is the dramatic plough in the tertiary act. Heartbreaking not just for the characters but for the audience that the pic changes so drastically. But this is what made the film stick with me so much. It's wonderful to have a film that you toss and turn in your head, trying to effigy out what it'due south all nigh. I can't divulge as anybody who hasn't seen it will be spoiled. Just go watch 1 of the best offers 2013 cinema has in store so far.
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Intricate tale of obsession and deceit
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Set in Italy but filmed in English, "The Best Offer" is a highly unusual and unusually interesting tale of two lost and pain souls reaching out to ane another for pregnant and salvation. Or at least that's what it wants you to THINK it's about. What it's ACTUALLY about may be something else once again.
A self-described "former human being incapable of love," the allegorically named Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Blitz) has kept pretty much the entire world - women included - at arm's-length for his unabridged life. He's a renowned, if not entirely scrupulous, fine art appraiser and auctioneer who has his entire fashion of existence turned upside down when he meets a mysterious immature woman named Claire (Silvia Hoeks) who pleads with him to come assess the belongings in her habitation upon the death of her wealthy parents. The trouble is that Claire, who has been a recluse since the historic period of sixteen, seems to exist suffering from a astringent instance of Agoraphobia and volition speak with Virgil only through a wall in the house. Dismissive, even irritated at first, Virgil presently becomes obsessed with the faceless, disembodied vocalism that floats to him through the dusky halls of a lonely villa.
Virgil is and so emotionally cut off from the globe around him that, despite the fact that he is physically able to come and go, he is just as much a prisoner of his life every bit Claire is of her disease and of the decaying mansion in which she's called to entomb herself. Is Claire the unexpected someone who will finally provide that meaningful homo connection that Virgil has avoided all this time? Or is she merely the vehicle through which he will finally be made to pay for the many professional transgressions he's committed over the class of his lifetime?
Rush carries almost the unabridged weight of this film on his shoulders, and he certainly shows he has the acting chops to see it through. Since Hoeks is largely off-screen for large portions of the motion-picture show, her job is a somewhat less arduous one, though her accomplishment is no less impressive for that. Jim Sturgess and Donald Sutherland are also constructive in smaller, yet highly significant, roles in the drama.
With a smart screenplay and lyrical direction by Giuseppe Tornatore, "The All-time Offering" is a haunting, mesmerizing film that draws you into its world and keeps you guessing every step of the fashion till the big reveal at the end.
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The Loss of Autonomy...
... as a result of love and desire, the urge to learn what you don't yet have. A superb demonstration of the power of film to manipulate, to ratchet up, build pressure and time its release to perfection.
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Capolavoro!!!
I still can not draw my state of listen at the terminate of the motion picture, a mixture of devastating feelings that left me incoherent, a country of listen that simply the greatest movies are able to go out, and this is one of those movies ! Inside at that place is so much stuff to talk about that in a annotate like this is highly simplistic! If you dearest fine art, psychology, suspense, love stories, in brusk, if you honey life, this moving picture will surprise y'all. A great cast of characters and works of art (TONS!) complete the piece of work and make it an unmissable, different from all the other nifty movies of Tornatore. Beware and so by those who want to acquaintance this moving-picture show with a movie of Hitchcock because it ways dismantle and destroy the film, this film is much more than! Thrilling is only one small part of a masterpiece of international cinema! Absolutely a must encounter!
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My favorite 2013 flick! A precious gem past a magnificent Blitz!
This is, past far, my well-nigh favorite movie of this twelvemonth! I've always been a Geoffrey Rush fan, only in this picture show, I've seen a very special Blitz who, by the way his on screen persona goes thru a life changing metamorphosis, creates a existent, twenty-four hour period-to-24-hour interval living amid us man with real life personal fears, heartbreaking disillusions and self rediscovering. He makes the states care for the very rigid and robotic Virgil Oldman in a fashion that surprises the senses. He is, in the beginning, a character who well-nigh people would discover repelling by his uncomfortable attitude and snobby means. But, as the movie proceeds, he is changed by this peculiar and frightful immature woman who has a mode of bringing him upward, and crushing him down within minutes in their dialog. I must say that director Tornatore wrote this amazingly beautiful story with a golden pencil, I'm sure. This is not another love story. It'southward a life story, set in the earth of Arts, where there'southward more than to discover behind the colors of paintings and the even so faces of sculptures than meets the centre. As the pic comes to an finish, you will face a difficult task: to be thankful that such a story made information technology to the big screen, or to desire that it would've remain simply in the author's heed and heart. I give it a total x, with no regrets. Awaiting more from Tornatore-Rush team! They get along pretty well I see.
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creative movie with plot
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Besides long I am bombarded by Television shows that attempt to create drama within drama to prolong their lives. Too few movies I accept seen that are and then cute and yet have a skilful roller-coaster plot.
"The best offer" seems besides adept to be true. The music, simple, classical and with gustation. At times, two channels are separated and so that my attention was drawn and I can't end enjoying the music. The sceneries, full of sculptures, paintings and other sorts of art works, combined with the view of Italy, are mesmerizing. Sylvia Hoeks is just then breathtakingly beautiful. The scene where she submerged herself under the bathtub h2o was only and then picturesquely capture that it itself synthetic a french portrait of a daughter. The story is just likewise good to be true, the atmosphere was built upwardly to climax so perfectly that you tin can sense the doom is imminent. It left me wonder, isn't it too harsh in the end? Just
It is a Geoffrey Rush'south show. But don't forget, it was Giuseppe Tornatore who put all these pretty things are put together.
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Intriguing offering
"The Best Offering" is an unusual, stylish motion-picture show with a clever story.
From the beginning we sense there is a mystery at its heart, and indeed, information technology keeps you wondering correct to the end.
I wouldn't give abroad too much of the plot and spoil the enjoyment for anyone discovering it for the first fourth dimension, however there are other things to savour about "The All-time Offering" other than the twists and turns of the story.
Geoffrey Rush plays Virgil Oldman, a successful art connoisseur and auctioneer who is asked to evaluate and sell the estate of Claire Ibbetson (Sylvia Hoeks), a reclusive young heiress who has non left her domicile for years. Virgil is a human being of epicurean sense of taste, who also has some carefully guarded issues regarding his near worship of beautiful women, which has manifested itself in an impressive private drove of paintings of women through the ages.
As he begins to catalogue the Ibbetson manor, we realise that the artefacts he uncovers and the growing human relationship with his strange young client touch not just his vanities but also probe his phobias and fantasies.
This is a picture show of many layers. We get an insider view of a world of wealth, privilege and a taste, only we also go an intimate await at Virgil Oldman; we run into beyond the aristocratic, absurd exterior to the man of securely repressed vulnerabilities - it is a thoughtful performance past Geoffrey Rush.
There is a great bargain of artwork shown in the movie including a couple of portraits past a fictional artist named Jansky, supposedly of great value, and of import to the plot. Paintings that receive groovy reverence in movies are sometimes a bit of a let downwards when they appear on the screen, often being simply retouched photos ("Laura") or just badly executed works that show the producers had little taste or knowledge of fine art.
That is not the case here, the filmmakers obviously went to some trouble to committee paintings from a very proficient artist (Russian artist Katerina Panikakova according to one source) and the interesting-looking portraits fit perfectly into the superb look and feel of the whole picture.
"The Best Offer" is an Italian production, and the love of art and beauty lends an Italian sensibility to the whole thing. Adding to the atmosphere is the distinctive Ennio Morricone score.
Although the Mamet-esque ending brings the drama to a logical enough determination, like many films, the journeying is the most satisfying aspect of "The Best Offer" - even if, sadly, it just reinforces the notion that there is no fool like an erstwhile fool.
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Very dense just mesmerising thriller
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Geoffrey Rush'south layered, dominant performance is the thematic and emotional crux of this very dense but mesmerising thriller. In one of his best performances, he plays his grapheme Virgil Oldman with theatrical notes, making the auctioneer an impatient and draconian homo, who is suffering from rhypophobia. His antisocial behaviour and general condone of other people signposts this equally being a story virtually a homo who learns to reconnect with people and to become a better person. Throughout the film Virgil does attempt to reconnect with the world by aiding an unseen woman named Claire (Sylvia Hoeks), who communicates with him through a wall as he helps her value the property of family belongings. This is a mere starting point equally the rabbit pigsty of the narrative is far deeper.
There is a distinct European temperament to the cloth, courtesy of Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore (Picture palace Paradiso), whose deliberate pacing of the story provides the narrative with time and spatiality to raise the themes and characters. The primal relationship between Virgil and the mysterious Claire has a fascinating basis, not because of what it provides Virgil, but how it challenges him. Who is this woman and why is she hiding? The suspense is Hitchcock in tone because we're intrigued past what we're non seeing off camera as much as Virgil's fragile actions. This mystery is trumped by story beats that dissolve into intense peaks of voyeurism, enhanced by a Roman Polanski inspired feel for claustrophobic interiors.
Virgil is a terrific character. Equally an art expert he has an center for particular that provides with him the investigative senses of a detective. Picket his intensity increase equally he talks to Claire on his mobile phone, hearing the echo of noises around him and through the phone. He knows that she must be nearby. Their human relationship is rich with irony, a bond fatigued from an aversion to sociality and people themselves. Tornatore's handsome interior stylisations reflect the internal psychology of his lead character. Scenes are filmed with a wide angle lens, positioning Virgil as a smaller figure in the centre of big open room. This asserts his emotional distance and failure to empathise people, women in detail. Equally he grows mentally and physically closer to Claire and the wall that hides her, the framing is purposefully tighter to assert their marriage of agoraphobic tendencies. Additional glimpses of his home life reveal a highly desaturated, untouched and sterilised living quarters.
Cleverly, the picture show'southward tension levels are spread outside the master story and into 2 subplots that enhance the complexity of the relationships and the overall plotting. Virgil has 2 associates with vastly different motives. The outset is his friend Billy (Donald Sutherland) who schemes with him on auctions. Virgil conducts the auction, while Baton sneaks in a deliberate final bid. The other man is Robert (Jim Sturgess), who works in a workshop with mechanics parts. Robert forms an unexpected second mystery in the script. Every bit Virgil asks him for advice on women and after how he can grow closer to the Claire, Robert's inner life comes to the fore. He is continually surrounded by various women when he is meant to be in a relationship. If his advice is genuine, why is his personal life such a mess and what is the significance of the robot that he is amalgam from diverse cranks plant around Claire'southward family mansion?
1 of the theories Robert questions nearly the robot is whether at that place was someone once manipulating it from the inside. The same can be said about Virgil because of the artificiality of his life and the manipulation that occurs between these characters. Ane of the primal lines in the moving-picture show is "there is ever something authentic concealed in every forgery". Deception becomes Tornatore's terminal theme, along with physical and mental disorientation. The thought is that equally Virgil loses his bearings on time and space nosotros do too so that we experience duplicate emotions about the real and faux. On top of this is a midget graphic symbol with a photographic retentiveness and a fast tracked timeline, which makes for a confusing, mind-bending last quarter. I am all the same not entirely surely what happened but films that let you guess the ending past the second act are stale and deadening. This will provoke discussion, not only because it'south strange and cryptic but because of the complexity of the writing and the various layers of the inspired central performance.
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Fantastic
I've been very fortunate with my Netflix films lately. This one, "The Best Offer" from 2013 is a fantastic flick with a brilliant performance past Geoffrey Rush.
Rush plays Virgil Oldman, a well known art expert. He and his friend Billy (Donald Sutherland), a failed artist, have an sale scam going which has helped Virgil learn a huge art collection of female portraits. When he auctions off paintings he wants, he describes the painting in a way that undervalues it, and then that Billy bids and gets information technology for less than information technology'southward worth. Virgil keeps the paintings in a secret room, where he will sit and enjoy them.
Virgil receives a call from a reclusive heiress, Claire Ibbetson, who wants the objects in her family home valued and some of them auctioned. She speaks to Virgil, but he never sees her. He so learns that even people who take worked in the house have never seen her. He becomes obsessed with her, an obviously immature, fragile, agoraphobic woman.
He confides in Robert (Jim Sturgess), a technician who is helping him put together pieces of an automaton he finds in the Ibbetson habitation; he suspects it might be old and valuable. Virgil admits to having no experience with women at all, and Robert gives him advice.
One twenty-four hours, at Robert's suggestion, Virgil pretends to leave, but stays behind to become a glimpse of Claire as she emerges from her room. He is surprised to run into that she is not only young, merely quite cute. His obsession is complete.
An intriguing, suspenseful, and sometimes tense film, The All-time Offer is fascinating. Every bit the elderly skillful, Rush is elegant, erudite, and on the snobby side. Gradually, as he becomes interested in Claire, he softens. Sylvia Hoeks, a Dutch actress, does not look 27 as she is supposed to be (that was the actress' age equally well) - but much younger. Her functioning is only partially successful, partly because she does not usually human activity in English.
Donald Sutherland is making a new career out of these more than eccentric roles, and he pulls them off.
Highly recommended for the script, acting, production values, and scenery. A precious stone.
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Art Into Life
Not bad movies have the ability to make you recollect and this picture show had me thinking for so long I couldn't sleep on the night I saw it. It is a tremendous flick with a deeply unsettling message and even now, 24 hours after seeing it I am haunted by the finish.
It'southward a fairy story and nightmare rolled into one. It's non what happens that'south important it's how it happens. the story is bully merely the plot is even meliorate.
Forget the bad reviews and make up your own mind. If you subscribe to the notion that Life imitates Art or Fine art imitates Life get see it. Yous won't be disappointed.
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Fun and gorgeous isn't always enough
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The con-pic has become a staple of cinema: then much so, that it'south almost impossible for a film's makers to retain the element of surprise. One solution is to layer con-upon-con, with a sense of knowningness deliberately induced in the audience: we're encouraged to recollect that something is happening that hasn't yet been revealed, even if nosotros're non certain what. Just 'The All-time Offer' takes a simpler route: a homo explores a path through life that ultimately turns out to be faux. In one sense, there are very few tricks in this plot, merely a mirage. But the film needs to requite u.s. two things for this to work: firstly, a plausible emotional journeying for the victim, and secondly, a sense of motivation for those who program to rob him. Yet the film'south Gothic story is never remotely plausible: it'due south entertaining as fable, but there's no risk of us being fooled along with the grapheme; or if there is, it's only because nosotros consciously append our disbelief as the necessary toll of continuing to watch. Equally for motive, it's only to steal the money, which is plausible, but tiresome (compare Bielisnky's marvellous 'Nine Queens' to come across a more believable, internally motivated, and cleverer story which nonetheless ends in a similar denouement). The set designer must have had fun on this movie: the story as a whole is jolly but shallow, and it'southward more than of a thwarting than a joy when it's Gothic accoutrements are revealed equally sideshow to a fundamentally duller story.
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The Best of The Best (a picture show tin can) Offer!
b1le fifteen January 2013
This movie is nearly Art!
It uses the Art every bit a mean to illustrate the Art every bit an terminate.
The Art is used in literal sense. Namely, the exterior is gear up in Rome (and a bit of Prague) which are finest art statements to this twenty-four hour period, while the interior scenes are shot in gorgeous villas amid pieces of art (voluptuous sculptures, sensuous paintings, precious pieces of furniture).
But more importantly, The Fine art is used in metaphorical sense: The Art of transforming one's Passion into Possession. The Art of transforming one's drive for Perfection and striving for owns Protection into ane's Flow and Vulnerability. The Art of merging opposing feelings, causing inner conflicts, arousing thousand emotions, attacking all senses, shaking the nerves...shaking the very basis until...
...until it becomes the ultimate Piece of work of Fine art itself!
Bravo Maestro's: Tornatore, Moriconne and Rush!
Biljana Gjoneska - www.evermind.me
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Conned Once more
Here we go round a familiar theme one more than time. As with Writer/Director Giuseppe Tornatore's earlier pic "The Fable of 1900" we over again have largely overblown characters in unbelievable situations. In both these offerings, we have characters that similarly, for one reason or another, have supposedly never been completely part of the 'existent' world.
What is it that makes some audiences so ready to take a movie as 'great', simply because it looks visually stylish? Cascade enough money into a limp idea, and information technology can look way better than it really is. 'The All-time Offer' primarily comes beyond as style over substance. The strongest aspect of this film is information technology'due south 'look'. Cinematographer Fabio Zamarion works hard to achieve above average nuances nether Tornatore'south call, and this, coupled with terrific production design and set decoration wins handsomely. It'due south just a pity they've been saddled with a script that stretches all believability till it cracks nether the strain. If these stories are expected to be taken as fables, then why are they given such deadly serious treatments, taking them into the 'realistic' realm?
Geoffrey Blitz's grapheme Virgil, is a human being of long term 'set' habits --obsessive compulsive to the extreme-- (wont affect anything without gloves, avoids eye contact wherever possible) even so within a few weeks nosotros're expected to believe his near consummate turn around. Off come up the gloves, he'southward now even primed to have raucous sex with a daughter more than half his sixty+ years. This might take been OK if it were the only trait we had to overlook, but the story features and so many outlandish situations that if you suspension, just slightly, to ponder them ~ y'all realize it'southward as simulated equally some of the art works this critic --of world renown-- is supposed to exist able to recognize. Rush is such a professional he almost pulls it off (but I wouldn't exist surprised if he wished he could accept re-written some sections)
Unfortunately, relationships between many characters throughout this work too stretch credibility, with way too much left unexplained. Nevertheless, if yous like movies that have been treated to an expensive 'arty' look, have outlandish situations (complete with large plot holes) then you could easily see this every bit a favorite.
Ennio Morricone's music score is complex and quite sophisticated, simply equally a collector of his work, I establish information technology musically rather unmemorable. Thinking on this Manager'south movies reminds me that the quondam aphorism; "You can fool some of the people some of the fourth dimension, but not all of the people all of the time", remains relevant...
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Is duplicity a plumbing equipment sentence for a duplicitous art collector?
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I was able to find this fine movie on Netflix streaming. It moves neither slowly nor rapidly, it rather paints a portrait of a human being and those he deals with. By the same director as one of my favorites, "The Legend of 1900."
At that place isn't much divulged about where this takes place only near filming locations are in Italy, but except for the American all characters speak as if they were British.
Geoffrey Rush, almost 60, is the cardinal figure equally art expert and auctioneer Virgil Oldman. He even has his ain auction house which is highly respected. Just old Virgil has more a few quirks and one big secret. Amid his quirks, always wearing gloves in public, fifty-fifty when dining at a fine restaurant, and holding a phone with a handkerchief while talking.
His clandestine is that he is obsessed with paintings of women and he collects them on the sly, enlisting the help of Donald Sutherland as Billy Whistler, to bid in his behalf. And sometimes fifty-fifty declaring an accurate painting a high-quality faux then that he can get it for a fraction of its value.
His life changes when he gets a call from a mysterious woman whose female parent and father had recently died inside a few weeks of each other and she needed to dispose of their estate of antique article of furniture and works of art. She is played by Sylvia Hoeks, about 27, equally Claire Ibbetson, with such a bad phobia that she locks herself into her room whatever fourth dimension others are in the business firm. She will not encounter Oldman face up-to-face.
The other primal grapheme is Jim Sturgess equally handyman and instrument repair human Robert. Oldman finds parts of an onetime machine, gears etc, on the floors of the old dwelling and enlists Robert to identify it and mayhap rebuild it. He thinks information technology might be an ancient contraption that when restored could fetch millions.
As the story unfolds Oldman begins to allow his guard downward and cares about this young woman, but is she everything he thinks she is?
Really a good motion-picture show, well played at just over two hours.
SPOILERS: Oldman gets sucked more and more into his affections for this young woman, an incident gets her to voluntarily get outside for the beginning time in years. She loses her inhibitions, she moves in with Oldman, they declare their love for each other. At present fully trusting her he shows her his subconscious room filled with valuable paintings. When he gets back from London in what is to exist his very terminal auction, he finds that she is gone, he takes a new painting and when he brings it into his hidden gallery he sees that all his paintings are gone. And and then he finds out the quirky dwarf that hangs out at the bar across the street is named Claire and is the actual owner of the onetime house. She occasionally rents it out to film crews, they motility in furniture and props only to movement them out afterwards. Oldman has been duped, Billy, Robert, and the fake Claire were all in on it, he was the victim of an elaborate scheme to steal his paintings worth millions. Only he acquired many, peradventure most, of them dishonestly and then maybe it was simply justice!
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Amazing role for Geoffrey Rush
Another great role for Geoffrey Rush, possibly his greatest acting performance, up to today. I dare to call it "some other" just because his performance in the Rex's Speech was quite impressive... The movie offers not only an interesting script, somehow well-nigh to Agatha'south Christie novels, but also fine images and an inspired music. If yous like fine paintings and antique furniture, yous will enjoy watching this movie, even without paying to much attention to the criminal skeleton that leads the story...there is no place for useless sequences, everything goes smoothly and natural, the drama is well tempered until the very last peak, the whole is well balanced and wonderful. I exercise not know anything near the manager of this movie, Mr.Giuseppe Tornatore, but, I am pretty sure that he has many other things to say in his time to come career...be certain to non miss this pic, you lot will highly savour the time spent watching it!
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Only missing Kaizer Soze
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Goodness, what a film. Like the Usual Suspects, it needs to exist watched a second fourth dimension.
Very much under the radar; tucked away into the VoD bill of fare like ane of the artworks portrayed in it. I thought Geoffrey Rush would forever be the Tailor of Panama, but here he is in the about exquisite grade as his more neurotic and successful cousin. The cleverness of the script is in how the viewer is fooled every bit elegantly every bit the protagonist, experiencing his disbelief. Yous can see it coming, but you lot don't want to believe it - just similar him. Nosotros thought we were watching a sensitive biopic nearly ii people helping each other to overcome their separate phobias, only to discover you were watching a profoundly targeted and flawless forgery.
There's also something imperial most the underrated Sylvia Hoeks, even if it is hard to categorise: a maturity for her age, or a perfectly-cast "old soul" vibe that works perfectly for the older human theorem. It's a subtle, robotic simplicity that could so hands be overdone, only is masterfully held back.
On one side of the mirror, we have an auctioneer - an expert in detecting forgery - breathing life into his greatest artistic work: bringing an agoraphobic heiress dorsum to life, whilst healing himself.
On the other, we see some other artist creating the perfect forgery: renting a mysterious firm with an even more than mysterious inventory from a dwarf savant, in club to draw his mark into madness and so he can steal the most personal, priceless collection of artwork.
Only the final reveal is the painting supposedly obsessed over our heiress, apparently of her mother. The yard revenge scheme has been orchestrated by the protagonist's embittered partner-in-crime and shill-bidder, who was the artist. Before Virgil leaves London, Baton announces he's sent him 1 of his paintings, about as if they were never going to speak once more. When Virgil returns to meet his emptied collection, all that is left are the remains that allow him to connect the dots: subsequently a lifetime of existence patronised and criticised by his friend for his supposedly meagre talents, Billy has co-ordinated the elaborate heist involving the girl and the robot, and rubs his friend's nose in his cleverness by signing and leaving Claire's special painting, with his cheers and adoration.
Structure is everything in screen writing, and this script was beautifully constructed in itself as a slice of fine art, complete with eccentricities, contrasts, and its own signature. There is no reconciliation, just denouement. Perhaps a little more exposition would have been useful, but like all fine art, it was made to brand you wonder what the artist's inspiration and plan were.
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Scenic. Gripping. Spine Tingling. Remarkable.
Certainly non your every day flick. This story pulls you in from the very beginning.
I expected very little, only existence familiar with Geoffrey Rush and his prior role selections did hold some expectation every bit to what kind of a story and setting I would be witness to.
May I say that later watching this movie, I am certain I volition see his character from this film in future when seeing Blitz perform. His execution of the role was impeccable.
Overall - movies are very rarely fabricated similar this, from storyline, script, acting to music, there was not a moment in which i wasn't captivated.
Chilled to the os even after completing the film, this is height shelf piece of work and an unlikely gem I commend and volition be indefinitely complementing and recommending.
Certainly a timeless motion-picture show, commence on with a cup of tea (or some popular corn) and settle in for a remarkable journey and emotion roller coaster.
10 stars.
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The best film of Berlinale 2013
I watched 12 most promising movies at recent Berlinale, and this was ultimately the best i. The movie is breathtaking and captures you from the first seconds. Mr. Blitz acting is superb, every bit are the art direction, cinematography, score and of grade, the plot. Film is full of beauty, emotion and humor. It feels like a united whole from beginning to the cease and leaves a great impression. I was too surprised later, when I found out that it was shot digitally with Arri Alexa Studio - I was sure it was shot on motion picture. This actually is a camera which will finally kill movie, although I dear film so much. Ironically, film may remain the medium of choice for depression budget productions, who can not afford renting this Arri beast.
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a strange mix of drama, psychological suspense and romance
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The first English linguistic communication feature film from director Giuseppe Tornatore, all-time known for his marvelous homage to film with Movie house Paradisio, is a strange mix of drama, psychological suspense and romance. It tells the story of Virgil Oldham (played by Geoffrey Rush), an eccentric and unscrupulous art auctioneer who has a scam going with his long time partner in criminal offence Baton (an underused Donald Sutherland). Oldham is able to easily spot fakes, but he also has an middle for deceiving desperate sellers regarding the worth of their forgotten masterpieces. Oldham is vain, cynical, fastidious and emotionally dry, until he is asked to evaluate the piece of furniture of a business firm being sold. The house belongs to the reclusive, agoraphobic Claire (Dutch actress Sylvia Hoeks), who has shut herself off from the earth and refuses to emerge from a hugger-mugger room within the house. Oldham finds himself fatigued to help Claire overcome her phobia. The Best Offer moves at a slow, measured pace that slowly draws the audience into its globe of deception. Just when we think we have it all figured out, Tornatore manages to pull the rug from under our feet. This is i of those films that about demands to be seen twice so that you lot can unravel the puzzle and put the various pieces together. The film has been gorgeously shot on location in Italy, Prague and Vienna past cinematographer Fabio Zamarion (Respiro, etc), and the lush score by Tornatore's regular collaborator Ennio Morricone adds to the atmosphere. Rush delivers a strong operation as a common cold and unsympathetic character. Sutherland sleepwalks his way through an undemanding role, while Jim Sturgess is solid as a gifted young mechanic who can prepare old clockwork pieces.
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worth watching
it is a skilful film. good interim, practiced directing, good story, good music... information technology'southward not the best i've seen recently (i only saw 'the chase' from thomas vinterberg and that blew me off completely), but information technology is worth watching.
movie will keep you engaged all the way.
i didn't similar the ending, just i guess whatsoever other ending wouldn't fit, then i shouldn't mutter too much.
i gave it viii out of 10 stars, because every single element of a movie (from music to production to directing to...) is real skilful. considering many mediocre (at best! :) ) movies that we run into so frequently, i would say that this movie deserves to be seen.
it's pleasing to the middle, information technology's soothing in some manner... i don't regret seeing information technology.
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Hidden jewel of 2013
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"The All-time Offer" is ane of the best films I have seen this year. It has an intriguing premise, smashing interim, and is full of beautiful paintings and beautiful buildings.
The common criticism of this movie is people who say they saw the twist coming. That they've 'outsmarted' the pic and that fabricated it less enjoyable. I don't agree with that assessment in the slightest. You were supposed to discover the hints. They were deliberately left out for you. Directors don't requite you a dozen clues to the ending and so expect you to be thrown.
If you then go on assuming that the managing director wanted you to take doubts, what y'all are left with is a very interesting concept. When did y'all make the bound from believing the human relationship was existent to believing it was fake? How many clues did you ignore? I tin honestly say for myself that information technology was several. Just before the twist it's downright obvious what is going to happen. Somewhere forth the line you lot went from believing the forgery was real to calling information technology simulated. Did yous carelessness at the offset false brush stroke? Or did you expect until you lot noticed a "V" in the eyeball of the painting?
What people are upset about is that they wanted it to exist existent. They'd take rather lived a fantasy romance than a statement on how we believe lies nosotros want to believe.
If not for the pacing bug towards the end I might have given this pic a perfect score.
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Don't trust anyone
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Another brilliantly directed movie past Tornatore. The directing is meliorate then the story.
Story doesn't hold the h2o, except for the office that you cannot trust people. C'mon!? An lonely art dealer falls for the girl so much that he shows her his secret art stash, which he collected his whole life? Not likely!
Except for directing, the cinematography, casting and music are likewise bright. And the cherry on top of the cake- a cute villa where most of the movie takes place. A pure marvel!
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Like a Good Storyteller
A small slice of me idea this picture show was going to be a stuffy, pretentious slice. I suppose some could withal view it as such. Don't count me among them.
"The All-time Offer" centers around an art appraiser and auctioneer named Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush--known for Captain Barbossa in "Pirates of the Caribbean"). He is an uptight, formal man who also happens to be a thief. With the assistance of his partner, Baton Whistler (Donald Sutherland), he artificially appraises expensive pieces at lower values so that he can acquire them. He has an entire room defended to paintings of nothing but women that he presumably grifted with the assist of Billy. He spends countless hours in this room marveling at the women as they are the simply women in his life. He loves them and they dear him.
His regimented, regulated, and routine world was upset when he was chosen to give an appraisal of piece of furniture and other items at the estate of a woman named Claire Ibbetson (Sylvia Hoeks). Claire has agoraphobia and never leaves the house. Virgil was totally drawn in by this mysterious woman. It was as if he was mystified by her secretive and mercurial nature. It wasn't long earlier he savage in love with her.
As a viewer I was waiting for the bombshell. Instinctively, I knew something wasn't what it was supposed to be, afterwards all, nosotros were dealing with a human who substantially stole art through lying. I didn't know what I was looking for, but Claire was my get-go suspect. My years of picture watching honed my Spidey senses and they were tingling.
It was that air of intrigue and incertitude that kept me hooked. Of course, the characters still had to exist adequate to continue me fatigued to the plot, and they were. The pacing of the movie jibed with the aristocratic atmosphere. You don't wait classy people to do annihilation fast, sloppy, or frivolous, and the movie had the same quality. It proceeded slowly and with a purpose such that you don't mind waiting for the climax and the conclusion. It's similar a good storyteller, you don't want him to rush nor are you broken-hearted for information technology to conclude.
AMC+ aqueduct on Amazon Prime number.
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