The Best Offer
could as easily been entitled Geoffrey
Rush is a Really Good Actor. In the
film, Rush plays an art and antiques valuator and auctioneer with a tightly
controlled, distant life. He is his
work, and he is very little else.
Until, that is, he meets a girl.
Once he meets a girl, the plot kicks in. It’s a perfectly fine, if heavy handed, tale,
but the tale isn’t the draw of The Best Offer. The draw of this film is the opportunity to
watch Rush assay a particular kind of solitary gentleman, then to watch him
develop this character into a three-dimensional man. He really is
breathtaking, even if the film he’s in begins to fade from memory mere days
after its viewing. I do enjoy Geoffrey
Rush.
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