The Best Offer (2013) on Netflix
R20132h 11mCrimeDramaMysteryRomance
Virgil Oldman, an auctioneer, keeps his distance from people. Claire Ibbetson, an agoraphobic heiress, hires him to appraise her parents' art collection. He becomes obsessed with her.
- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb7.7/10138,640 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes56%
Trailer
Plot summary
The managing director of a preeminent auction house, Virgil Oldman lives alone, wearing gloves at all times except when he handles art. With his friend Billy Whistler he acquires female portraits cheaply, then keeps the paintings in a private vault. Claire Ibbetson, a young heiress with severe agoraphobia, hires him to appraise and sell the art and antiques her late parents left in their villa. She will not meet him in person, speaking by telephone and leaving notes with Fred, the caretaker. Virgil finds scattered mechanical parts marked by the inventor Jacques de Vaucanson and asks Robert, a young restorer, to reassemble them. Robert also advises him on how to reach Claire.
Cast
- Caterina Capodilistaas Young Woman
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Best Offer (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Sylvia Hoeks, then relatively unknown internationally, was cast as the film's reclusive heiress only after other actresses refused the role because the character does not appear on screen for much of the movie.
- Geoffrey Rush was Giuseppe Tornatore's first choice for the lead role, the director having had him in mind while writing the screenplay, and Tornatore later described Rush as a synthesis of Marlon Brando and Marcello Mastroianni.
- Giuseppe Tornatore wrote The Best Offer by merging two narrative ideas he had developed over more than twenty years, and wrote the script in English to broaden its international appeal, marking his English-language debut.
