IFC films could not have possibly made it more difficult to get information about this, but I am 99.99% sure that Giuseppe Tornatore (CInema Paradiso) will finally see his award winning, English language film, La Migliore Offerta (The Best Offer) in American theaters.
READ MY REVIEW OF LA MIGLIORE OFFERTAhttp://iloveitalianmovies.com/2013/01/13/la-migliore-offerta-is-tornatores-best-offer-ever/
Some sources say that it is opening on January 1, 2014, but I believe that they have confused this with the Italian debut in 2013, and that it is more likely that we’ll see The Best Offer distributed on a limited basis on January 3, 2014.
Starring Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Donald Sutherland and Dutch actress Sylvia Hoeks, it was shot in northern Italy, Vienna and Prague on an $18 million budget with a score is by Ennio Morricone. I think it is Tornatore’s best work to date.
Rush plays Virgil Oldman, a rich, famous, talented, and unscrupulous art auctioneer and collector whose elitism combined with OCD tendencies make for a solitary but apparently satisfying existence. His joy in life is his secret stash of portraits, women’s portraits from every era and genre. He’s acquired them dishonestly with no apparent remorse; his narcissism leaves no room for the sympathy he should be feeling for the people he’s cheated in the world in which he is so respected.
However unenthusiastically IFC may be releasing it, don’t miss this chance to see this excellent Tornatore film that won Nastro D’Argentos, David di Donatellos, and Italian Golden Globes.
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