The Best Offer
A master of possession. A crime of obsession.
La migliore offerta (2013)
Timing:
2:11 (131 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Drama, Romance, Crime
Budget
$13 500 000
Revenue
$19 255 873
Director
Actors
Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland, Maximilian Dirr, Philip Jackson, Dermot Crowley, Liya Kebede, Hannah Britland, Brigitte Christensen
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Arturo Paglia, Isabella Cocuzza, Enzo Sisti
Operator
Fabio Zamarion
Composer
Artist
Audition
Reg Poerscout-Edgerton
Editing
Massimo Quaglia
All team (43)
All team (43)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film features several works of art. The painting being restored is "Portrait of a Young Girl" (c. 1470) by Petrus Christus. Among the works Oldman studies are "The Birth of Venus" (1879) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Among the female portraits in his collection are "Portrait of a Young Woman (La Fornarina)" (c. 1519) and "Portrait of a Young Woman (La Muta)" (1507) by Raphael, "La Bella" (The Beautiful Woman) (1536) by Titian, "Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo" (1560) and "Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi" (1541) by Agnolo Bronzino, "Portrait of Caterina Sforza" (c. 1490) by Lorenzo di Credi, "The Gypsy" by Boccaccio Boccaccino, "Portrait of a Girl with a Book of Petrarch's Poems" (c. 1528) by Andrea del Sarto, "Portrait of Bianca Capello" (c. 1572) by Alessandro Allori, "Portrait of Elisabeth Touher" (1499) by Albrecht Dürer, and "Jeanne Samary in Décolleté (La Reverie)" (1877) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. There are also works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, Francisco Goya, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Amedeo Modigliani, Morgan Weistling, and many others.
- Sylvia Hoeks, relatively unknown outside of the Netherlands, was noticed by the filmmakers at the Berlin Film Festival.
- Filming took place in several cities in Italy, as well as in Vienna and Prague.
- Tornatore filmed an alternative ending to the movie. The setting is a restaurant in Rome. The same location is used in preceding scenes, but the final scene, filmed on the same set in Rome, was cut and replaced with a more complex scene, and the dialogue was also slightly altered, filmed in various locations around the world.
- The location of the fictional Czech restaurant Night and Day, which is shown at the end of the film, was actually the restaurant Pivnice u Milosrdnych (closed on 08/03/2013). The restaurant name sign can be seen when Oldman enters (the letters shine through from the exterior sign and are therefore mirrored). The clock on the right side of the entrance was actually the Gambrinus beer logo. The logo of the fictional restaurant above the entrance is also depicted over the Gambrinus logo. At the same time, the beer logo was not masked on the windows.
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