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Amazon releases ‘The Best Offer’ on Blu Ray and DVD

ByChiara Spagnoli Gabardi

May 17, 2013

Title: Amazon releases ‘The Best Offer’ on Blu Ray and DVD

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Donald Sutherland, Sylvia Hoeks.

‘The Best Offer’ nominated for 13 David di Donatello (the film award presented each year for cinematic performances and production by L’Accademia del Cinema Italiano, The Academy of Italian Cinema), is now distributed, through Amazon, on Blu-Ray and DVD.

The romantic drama written and directed by the Italian Academy Award-winning Giuseppe Tornatore, boasts a music score composed by Ennio Morricone and a prestigious cast, starring Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Donald Sutherland and Sylvia Hoeks.

Giuseppe Tornatore explained the making of his thriller set in Vienna, in the world of auctions, among luxury hotels and fine restaurants. The story, that revolves around a loveless elderly man who intersects with an astute young man and a mysterious woman in a Central European setting, had a long incubation period. The director came up with the first idea in 1984 and then left it aside and often went back to it, while making other movies. The plot is very basic and linear, but upon that, myriads of layers of subtext pile up, enriching a truly remarkable depiction of the phases of enamourment. Love is the equipoise to the noir texture, even though there is no murderer, no corpse and no detective. However all the other elements of this film genre are there, the oneiric self-referentiality, the femme fatale, and the gothic romance that mingles with a socially troubled character.

The movie that is being released by Warner Bros. on Blu-Ray and DVD, by the Italian branch of the world’s largest retailer and American multinational electronic commerce company, includes some special features including a very amusing backstage clip.

Technical: A

Acting: B+

Story: B+

Overall: A-

Written by: Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

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By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi, is a film critic, culture and foreign affairs reporter, screenwriter, film-maker and visual artist. She studied in a British school in Milan, graduated in Political Sciences, got her Masters in screenwriting and film production and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and Los Angeles. Chiara’s “Material Puns” use wordplay to weld the title of the painting with the materials placed on canvas, through an ironic reinterpretation of Pop-Art, Dadaism and Ready Made. She exhibited her artwork in Milan, Rome, Venice, London, Oxford, Paris and Manhattan. Chiara works as a reporter for online, print, radio and television and also as a film festival PR/publicist. As a bi-lingual journalist (English and Italian), who is also fluent in French and Spanish, she is a member of the Foreign Press Association in New York, the Women Film Critics Circle in New York, the Italian Association of Journalists in Milan and the Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean. Chiara is also a Professor of Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts at IED University in Milan.

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