Mr Turner

Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner tells the story, perhaps unsurprisingly, of the life and career of J.M.W. Turner, the British painter, whom many consider as the man who elevated landscape painting to previously unseen heights.  I should say from the outset that I have little knowledge of Turner, I could not tell you of his life and only know the most basic of facts about his body of work.  However, I still went along to the film with great expectations.  It has been critically praised and Timothy Spall took the prize for Best Actor at Cannes.

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