More fakery (ctd.)

November 19 2012

Video: Momentum Pictures

A reader writes:

With all these stories of dodgy art dealers selling fake paintings to unsuspecting art collectors, I wondered if you had heard that there is a new film that will be released this coming Wednesday (21 Nov), staring Colin Firth as an unscrupulous art dealer who recruits Cameron Diaz to sell a dodgy Monet painting to Alan Rickman? It's called 'Gambit' and the bus shelters of London are currently stuffed with adverts for it, as I discovered while driving round the south circular this afternoon!  Apparently it is a remake of a 60s film [with Michael Caine].