An art expert, lonely and full of phobias, meets a female client who intrigues him more than his personal collection of female portraits masterpieces .
A film by Giuseppe Tornatore (The Legend of 1900, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Malena) with Geoffrey Rush in the lead role. That should be enough to attract the right audience.
A sensitive film, with and about sensitive people, it initially creates contradictory feelings about gender equality, soon overturned by the idea of a man with sensitivities so different from the realities around him that he gets to build his own world in which he feels accepted, whole and in his element, delaying / cancelling happy events that are (only apparently) forbidden to him.
If at times the film reminds the viewer of Cet Obscur Object Du Desir, this is an unfair comparison, the main character of Deception being a completely special individual, at the opposite pole of the superficiality exposed in Buñuel's film.
Bonus: The story has many attractions to offer for the public who is not very fond of too emotional films.
Directed/written by: Giuseppe Tornatore
Featuring: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Donald Sutherland, Sylvia Hoeks, Dermot Crowley, Liya Kebede
Rating: 9/10
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