Directed by : Mike LEIGH
Year of production : 2014 Country : UNITED KINGDOM Length : 149 minutes
Award for Best Actor , 2014
Vulcain Prize for an artist technician, awarded by the C.S.T. , 2014
‘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.
Mike LEIGH
Gary YERSHON - Music
Dick POPE, BSC - Director of Photography
Jon GREGORY, ACE - Film Editor
Tim FRASER - Re-recording mixer
Mike LEIGH - Director
Mike LEIGH - Script / Dialogue
Timothy SPALL - JMW TURNER
Dorothy ATKINSON - HANNAH DANBY
Marion BAILEY - SOPHIA BOOTH
Paul JESSON - WILLIAM TURNER Snr
Lesley MANVILLE - MARY SOMMERVILLE
Martin SAVAGE - BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON
Ruth SHEEN - SARAH DANBY
film poster © CR
Press conference of "Mr. Turner"
Production
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