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Mr. Turner

  • Dir: Mike Leigh

  • UK/France/Germany, 2014, English, 150mins, DCP

  • Cast: Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson

After Topsy-Turvy ’s study of classic creatives, Mike Leigh looked to the great British painter J.M.W. Turner for an extraordinary biopic. Beginning at the 1829 death of Turner’s father, Leigh’s film tracks the artist’s genius, methods, contradictions and passions. Timothy Spall, already astonishing in earlier dramas, further lifts his game as he inhabits the grunting, growling and imposing figure, an eccentric man of the people who navigates the high-society art world on his own terms. Leigh’s longtime cameraman Dick Pope captures everything with gorgeous cinematography – his shots the fitting complement for Turner’s renown as ‘the painter of light’.

Cannes Film Festival: Best Actor
Academy Awards: 4 nominations including Best Cinematography

    Screening:

    In-theatre Screening

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    • Financially Supported by

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.