Mr. Turner
20146.5movie
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Film | Art house cinema. Mr Turner: Cannes 2014 review.It’s quite a risk for any film to recreate the setting of such an illustrious oil painting but Dick Pope, Leigh’s cinematographer, gives Turner a run for his money. Right from the…
Mr. Turner (2014). Leigh balances this ambivalence by showing us a man whose position in the world is slipping away. He isolates the most intriguing part of Turner’s life – his mid-to-late years – when opinion of his work was at its peak…
Filmmaker Mike Leigh's biography of the landscape painter J.M.W. Turner is what critics call "austere"—which means it's slow and grim and deliberately hard to love—yet it's fascinating, and the performances and photography are outstanding…
