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Mr. Turner (2014)

Drama | 150 minutes
3,08 262 votes

Genre: Drama / Biography

Duration: 150 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / France / Germany

Directed by: Mike Leigh

Stars: Timothy Spall and Tom Wlaschiha

IMDb score: 6,8 (27.981)

Releasedate: 31 October 2014

Mr. Turner plot

The story of the final years of British artist JMW Turner, who lived from 1775 to 1851. Although a renowned artist, he was expelled from the Royal Academy of Arts. He lived with his father, who was both his assistant and householder, and was part of the aristocracy, visiting brothels and drawing inspiration from his many travels. However, his fame did not save him from public ridicule and sarcasm.

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Sophia Booth

William Turner Snr

Mary Somerville

Benjamin Robert Haydon

Sarah Danby

Joseph Gillot

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Donkerwoud

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Not quite a masterpiece, but it's hard to explain exactly why. It certainly isn't the fault of Timothy Spall's brilliantly unpolished performance as JMW Turner. He knows how to interpret the painter as an outwardly intensely ugly figure in the midst of overt misogyny and cruel social conventions, but who, with his artistic gaze, nevertheless manages to find beauty in the natural beauty around him. It's amazing how Spall manages to put so much subtlety and layering in a grotesque figure that initially feels like a character. It's not the soundtrack either. The strongest thing about Mr. Turner is in fact the recurring music theme in the background that simultaneously reflects the bombastic beauty and an eerie elusiveness of Turner's paintings.

Perhaps the biggest shortcoming lies in the muddled direction of Mike Leigh. It seems as if he consciously avoids any form of conflict and tension, thus focusing more on the mundane and boring than on the major life-shaping moments in the painter's life. That premise produces an at times hypnotically different kind of biography of highlighting a great artist as a product of his own time rather than the hero in his own grand epic. At the same time, Mr. Turner has a logical structure through conflict with other characters or a clear connection between events. The painter's struggle against his own transience becomes a static whole that touches on too many different isolated aspects (love affairs, conflict with his own family, brothel visits).

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Movsin

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Perhaps the film is a bit too long-winded, but I think it's fine in terms of cinematography, with good photography, excellent and clear dialogues and of course the act of Timothy Spall, one of my beloved British actors. The ladies surrounding him, such as Dorothy Atkinson as the faithful maid, and Marion Bailey, his landlady by the sea, also convince in their role.

Don't think Mike disappointed Leigh, despite the multiple negative comments and low score.

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Lavrot

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Mike Leigh wanted the film to feel between the tension of the mortal ailing individual and the epic work; the spiritual way Turner “distilled” the world, that's what I read under IMDB's "Trivia" headline.

To my taste, Leigh has succeeded with verve in this ambitious undertaking. A visual biography that begins and ends as a quest with Turner's fascination with "light." It is of course not without significance that he starts with the "Dutch/Flemish" masters and the name the Rembrandt of England is therefore more than justified.

Underneath the rather rough appearance and the sometimes blunt behavior of Turner hides an extremely fine-grained and sensitive, broadly culturally educated person, who at the end of his painting career managed to translate his inner life in an expressionist way to the white linen.

What Turner did with the brush, Leigh occasionally touched on through the camera: some shots could be framed that way.

The remark "Love will come" more than likely referred not only to the "ordinary bastards" who didn't understand his work, but also to his heavenly patience to meet the right one in the end; she presented herself in the person of the widow Mrs Booth, who turned out to be a soul mate.

The biographical insight ends tellingly on the deathbed with the words "God is the sun." And the right listener doesn't have to think deeply why Mrs Booth gives the windows of her front door another thorough cleaning, with a hearty smile on her face, and why it was closed with the images of the psoriasis-suffering housekeeper, who only and left between Mr. Turner's estate her last days will pass.

By the way, an excellent acting performance from Timothy Spall.

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