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The Best Offer

La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)

2013

Giuseppe Tornatore

Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland ...

7.1

25,473

Mystery. Romance. Thriller. Drama Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged and Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Astutely written (...) Though it begs for a little lightening up, a moment of irony, a wink at the audience, this dead-serious fairy tale (...) is worth watching for Geoffrey Rush’s sensitive, never pandering performance"	POS
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Sumptuous (...) Aiming for a Hitchcockian (...) the pic ends up more in Dan Brown territory, with over-obvious setups and phony insight into the art establishment."	NEU
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"A tenuous art-scam/romance/thriller storyline is fatally undermined by rusty dialogue (...) Fine actors (...) are, almost everything they say remains dead on the page (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"The problem arises when the script (also by Tornatore) keeps insisting on explaining its own symbolism and subtext (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"If its destination is patently obvious from the outset, the journey does at least offer scattered pleasures."	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"The resulting film is such a campy mess that for a while it’s possible to see it having some sort of life as a kitsch cultish artifact"	NEG
United States	Nicolas Rapold The New York Times	"A dull courtship leading to a bad end (...) The director stages his serviceable gothic mystery premise with the elegance of an auction."	NEG
United States	Ben Sachs Chicago Reader	"Tornatore conjures a tantalizing mood (...) unfortunately, this mood dissipates once Tornatore starts to resolve the film’s various mysteries, and the resolution goes on for far too long."	NEU

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