Mr. Turner
2014 · Movie · 149 min. · United Kingdom
‘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, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.
Direction Mike Leigh
Cast Timothy Spall · Dorothy Atkinson · Marion Bailey · Paul Jesson · Martin Savage · Lesley Manville · Ruth Sheen · Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Soundtrack Gary Yershon
Screenplay Mike Leigh
Cinematography Dick Pope
Original title Mr. Turner
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