The Best Offer
The Best Offer
R | 01 January 2014 (USA)
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Virgil Oldman 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 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 a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

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andhikaputra-57159

This is the movie which make you thinking you cant judge things by looking somepart of it or the beginning of it. i wasn't really impressed at the beginning and suddenly BOOM!!! I feel sorry for myself underestimate this AWESOME MOVIES!! 10 is still an underrated to grade this FILM 100/10 !!

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TheHaratashi .

Wow what a waste of Rush's talent. For one thing this was so very very slow and painful. Even as slow as it was, it still could have been a fairly good movie if they had done the whole damaged girl that can't go out into the real world bit properly. Instead is was an unbelievable mess. And adding Donald S. didn't add anything to the movie or the story - a waste of his talent too. At one point I thought the girl was a vampire because she sucked up her own blood and said she hadn't put on makeup in centuries. And I have no idea why they included the building of a robot - had nothing to do with the story. And having his friend having problems with his girlfriend had nothing to do with anything either but still they had it in the movie. A complete waste of time. Zero stars.

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mahermoqamer

If there was a movie then it is the best offer what a great movie

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Carlos Idelone

I have mixed feelings/thoughts about "The Best Offer". I'm surprised by the number of people who said, that they could see the ending coming early on. Did they know, that this was supposed to be a caper/crime film ? I knew nothing about this and being raised on "Disney", most of the way through I fully expected this to be a sweet or possibly tragic love story. I found the "twist" at the end to be so abrupt, that it was confusing and seemed unfounded to me, based on what had gone before. I obviously didn't pick up any of the hints people say were so blatantAccepting the ending, I can see this film, as a psychological study of the power of emotion over intellect in a person's life. The main character, it seemed, had been running from emotion his entire life. To protect himself, as many of us do, from uncontrollable emotion, he adopted a very strong intellectual approach in his dealings with others. We see, that he hid a very strong vulnerability to romantic love, which displayed itself in his private gallery of women's portraits. "His" women were delicate, aesthetic works of art, with none of the inconvenient messiness of reality. I think, that he possibly had been raised on "Disney" princesses also. When, in the film, he met a woman, who piqued his intellectual interest, his defenses were lowered and he believed, that one of his fantasy women had manifested in physical reality. This left him vulnerable to his hidden emotional desires and in the film to his downfall and humiliation. If the aim of the film, was to show this character study, I think, that it needed to be more introspective and subtle and dispense with much of the melodrama and gimmicks, that it embraced. I found the "caper" plot, to be too intrusive and abrupt and in that, it overshadowed and preempted the man's inner struggle.This is why, I saw the film as being at odds with itself and thus a little "wonky". I found it very well done until the final scenes, which I found rushed and lacking in redemption a man of this intellectual capacity may have experienced. The art direction and cinematography were wonderful. The acting, especially by Geoffrey Rush was touching.

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