What saves this picture from being another well meaning pseudo doc/drama is a riveting performance from Guy Pearce as Han Van Meegrern and Claes Bang as Joseph Piller.
This is a story I hadn't heard about, (no spoilers here), about one of the worlds greatest forgers, and how he pulled the wool over not only the art world, with it's 'up them selves', I know better than you attitude, and the head of the Nazi regime.
It's a fantastical story made all the more watchable by the roles of Guy Pearce and Class Bang). You have to keep reminding yourself that, it's real, it really happened, it's not Hollywood.
There's no doubt that Guy Pearce's plays his role so well that I actually thought to myself at one point why would you go to all the effort they did to save this man......he's insufferable to the point of self destruction. But it the space of just a few minutes he does a full 180 and demonstrates why he'd acted the way he did. I'm not sure how true to life that was, but if it was as acted then that surely must have been the best day ever in any court.
This is a story I hadn't heard about, (no spoilers here), about one of the worlds greatest forgers, and how he pulled the wool over not only the art world, with it's 'up them selves', I know better than you attitude, and the head of the Nazi regime.
It's a fantastical story made all the more watchable by the roles of Guy Pearce and Class Bang). You have to keep reminding yourself that, it's real, it really happened, it's not Hollywood.
There's no doubt that Guy Pearce's plays his role so well that I actually thought to myself at one point why would you go to all the effort they did to save this man......he's insufferable to the point of self destruction. But it the space of just a few minutes he does a full 180 and demonstrates why he'd acted the way he did. I'm not sure how true to life that was, but if it was as acted then that surely must have been the best day ever in any court.