Last Vermeer, The

[Opens Nov. 20 in theaters.] A captivating, gripping, well-acted, factually based, critically acclaimed, convoluted, star-dotted (Vicky Krieps, Roland Møller, Richard Dillane, Olivia Grant, Andrew Havill, Susannah Doyle, and Adrian Scarborough), 117-minute, 2019 historical thriller based on Jonathan Lopez's novel The Man Who Made Vermeers in which Jewish Canadian allied Captain Joseph Piller (Claes Bang), who is estranged from his wife (Marie Bach Hansen) and son, tries to help talented, cheeky, charismatic Dutch art dealer and artist Han van Meegeren (Guy Pearce) in 1945 in Amsterdam after he was arrested a second time by a tenacious government official (August Diehl) for selling Johannes Vermeer's priceless The Supper at Emmaus painting for millions to the Nazis, particularly Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, during WWII but claimed he was innocent and did not collaborate with the enemy but artfully and successfully forged the artworks himself.
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