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Dec 19, 2014 · Mr. Turner. Mr. Turner. 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. Leigh, the writer and director of such classics as "Naked" and " Secrets and ...
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Nov 3, 2014 · As for Mr Turner, there are plenty of bursts of raucous laughter, most of them generated by Spall, whose ear for a well-timed line is as keen as his character’s eye for colourful detail. He may ...
Oct 5, 2014 · Watching the film, it is impossible not to have a sneaking suspicion that Mr Turner is, at least in part, autobiographical, or, at the very least, that it involves sympathetic projection, that it ...
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Dec 19, 2014 · Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (Timothy Spall) lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper (Paul Jesson) bears ...
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Oct 30, 2014 · Mr Turner is funny, humane and visually immaculate, hitting its confident stride straight away. It combines domestic intimacy with an epic sweep, and a lyrical gentleness pervades each scene ...
Coming to the performances, Mr. Turner has only one interesting character in it & that's Turner himself, played magnificently by Timothy Spall who also won Best Actor for this role at Cannes. It's a brilliant, committed & thorough performance from the underrated actor who grunts his way throughout the film but without him, I don't think I would ...
Oct 31, 2014 · Mr. Turner: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey. An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.
