Mike Leigh’in prömiyerini Cannes’da yapan son filmi Mr. Turner,
empresyonizm akımının öncülerinden dahi İngiliz ressam J.M.W. Turner’ın
hikâyesini konu alıyor. Genellikle filmlerinde İngiliz orta-alt sınıfını
politik ve sosyolojik yönlerden ele alan Leigh, bu kez bir sanatçının
hayatını anlatmayı tercih ediyor. Eleştirmenlerce adı Oscar için geçmeye
başlayan Mr. Turner, Cannes Film Festivali’nde film için iki yıl
boyunca resim dersleri alan Timothy Spall’a en iyi erkek oyuncu ödülünü
kazandırmıştı.
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.
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.
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