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MR. TURNER

Director:

  Mike Leigh
  

Year Released:

  2014

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

3 out of 5

3 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Timothy Spall
  Turner Canvases
  Turner Patrons
  Turner Rivals
  Turner Women
Movie Haiku:What to say when a director is so determined NOT to make a "standard" BioPic that he deliberately omits all context, reducing the life of British painter J.M.W. Turner to episodes punctuated by grunts. Anyone with a "name"--Constable, Ruskin, Queen Victoria--is mocked; everyone else is mere fuzz. What to say? Gee, the world was sure prettier before the Industrial Revolution :-(

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  No

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2014