Mr. Turner (2014)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 150m
Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey
Synopsis:
The painter J.M.W. Turner pursues his own particular brand of art until he is derided by his peers, and lives a double life with a Margate widow. Meanwhile his faithful female retainer is forgotten.
Review:
Leigh takes an approach to his cantankerous subject which is neither conventional biopic nor an investigation into the technical innovations that films about such as Van Gogh, Vermeer, Caravaggio and Picasso have done in the past. Instead his is a characteristic study in eccentricity and humane misanthropy for which Spall is ideal casting. You may be as seduced by the ravishing visuals and exquisitely arranged decors as you are irritated by the incessant grunting and inaudible dialogue.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 150m
Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey
Synopsis:
The painter J.M.W. Turner pursues his own particular brand of art until he is derided by his peers, and lives a double life with a Margate widow. Meanwhile his faithful female retainer is forgotten.
Review:
Leigh takes an approach to his cantankerous subject which is neither conventional biopic nor an investigation into the technical innovations that films about such as Van Gogh, Vermeer, Caravaggio and Picasso have done in the past. Instead his is a characteristic study in eccentricity and humane misanthropy for which Spall is ideal casting. You may be as seduced by the ravishing visuals and exquisitely arranged decors as you are irritated by the incessant grunting and inaudible dialogue.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 150m
Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey
Synopsis:
The painter J.M.W. Turner pursues his own particular brand of art until he is derided by his peers, and lives a double life with a Margate widow. Meanwhile his faithful female retainer is forgotten.
Review:
Leigh takes an approach to his cantankerous subject which is neither conventional biopic nor an investigation into the technical innovations that films about such as Van Gogh, Vermeer, Caravaggio and Picasso have done in the past. Instead his is a characteristic study in eccentricity and humane misanthropy for which Spall is ideal casting. You may be as seduced by the ravishing visuals and exquisitely arranged decors as you are irritated by the incessant grunting and inaudible dialogue.