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Sweeping
this year’s Italian Oscars (David di Donatello Awards), director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, Baarìa) continues to surprise, delight
and defy our expectations with his brilliantly conceived first English-language feature, lavishly set “somewhere in Habsburg Italy.” Starring
Geoffrey Rush as a fastidious and lovelorn antiquarian art auctioneer, Donald
Sutherland as his business partner (in crime) and gorgeous Sylvia Hoeks as the
most elusive object of desire, The Best Offer brims with moments of
genuine human pathos, sly humor and winks to Alfred Hitchcock spiked with a
dash of David Lynch—all set to a lush choral soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. As
the besotted lover yearns for a glimpse of his mysterious beloved amid the
phantasmagorically sumptuous surroundings, Tornatore provides us with much
food for thought: Can love bring art to life? Or is it merely a chef
d’oeuvre of the forger’s craft?
—KD
Davis
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH
THE ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO