Mr. Turner
- Release Date
- October 31, 2014
- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Cast
- Timothy Spall , Paul Jesson , Dorothy Atkinson , Marion Bailey , Karl Johnson , Ruth Sheen
- Runtime
- 149
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Mike Leigh
- Tagline
- A film by Mike Leigh.
Summary
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.
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