A new poster for Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner has arrived and awaits your loving gaze down below. Leigh’s latest movie, starring Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson and Dorothy Atkinson, 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.
Released: October 31st IRELAND & UK / December 19th USA (Limited Release)
