Originally Posted by monet View Post
I did just happen to stumble upon a Great Movie that I missed 11 years ago.
I didn't know anything about it going in.
I suggest you do not read any comments or watch any previews if you watch this movie.
You really do not want to know anything going in.
I stumbled upon it in the usual way of searching to and fro.
I was probably too busy making money in this time period and the movie didn't gain any traction for me to notice it.
But it is definitely a movie that I will put in my collection, and I highly recommend it.

The odd thing about this movie is the rotten tomato score.
IMDB has it rated better.
I figured this movie might be really good when I watched 10 seconds of the preview.
The Classical Music and Art Dealings hooked me immediately.
Geffory Rush is pretty damn good at what he does as well.

The Best Offer (2013)
Geoffrey Rush
Jim Sturgess
Donald Sutherland
I watched it, but I will probably rewatch it because the Youtube version I watched has poor sound. I downloaded the movie from gomovies, so it should run cleaner if I watch it again. In any case, as you wrote, it was an excellent movie. One of my favorite things about the movie is how some of the pieces fall together retrospectively after the viewing. For example, during an auction one of the bidders gets super pissed that Billy (Donald Sutherland) has the winning bid on a painting since she was not observed making her bid after Billy by Virgil during the auction. She then says something like "I am the biggest collector of this person's reproductions (forgeries)". Well after the movie, it came to me that the primary reason she was absolutely furious is because she had figured out sometime before (perhaps years before) that Virgil (with Billy shilling) was passing off real paintings as brilliant forgeries and buying them on the cheap using Billy as the shill in the bidding audience - and so Virgil had prevented her from getting her hands on what she knew was a genuine painting (which was super-cheaply priced for the real thing but over-priced if it had been a known forgery).