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Mr. Turner

2014

Mike Leigh

Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson ...

6.3

5,163

Drama ‘MR. TURNER’ explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An outstanding performance from Spall (...) it combines domestic intimacy with an epic sweep and has a lyrical, mysterious quality that perfumes every scene, whether tragic or comic (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"
		Dave Calhoun Time Out	"Leigh and his cinematographer Dick Pope essentially create a series of filmed paintings that celebrate the spirit of Turner's work (...) an extraordinary film (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"
		Scott Foundas Variety	"An ecstatically beautiful and exquisitely detailed portrait of the artist (...) e, Spall shows you every flicker of thought that flashes across Turner’s mind"
		Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"'Mr. Turner' manages to illuminate that nexus between biography and art with elegant understatement (...) a masterful performance by Timothy Spall in a role he was born to play"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'Mr. Turner' is a first-rate match of director and subject. Less an explication of the man's genius than an immersion into its essence."
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"The sprawling, loosely structured 2 ½ hour drama has some of the year's most stunning visuals (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Leigh shows us the world as Turner sees it-harsh and ravishing. His beauty of a movie touches the heart not by sentimental gush but by the amplitude of its art (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"

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