BRILLIANT and BEAUTIFUL
This is truly one of the best films of 2014.
Mike Leigh delivers yet again another peice of true artistic cinema. This film has a richness and depth that is so grossly lacking in most Hollywood films.
Some of the most sublime dialogue I have heard in a long time. Each word is so carefully chosen and spoken by the actors. Brings shame to Hollywood for honouring such trashy tripe like Django Unchained... apparently you can win an Oscar for writing pages of the word *beep* and n*g*er, but a true piece of literature such as Mr Turner is overlooked. makes no sense.
From the gorgeous cinematography, to Mike Leigh's perfect directing, to a towering performance by Timothy Spall.... its hard not to rate this film as one of the best biopics of an artist ever produced.
In a year full of very interesting and competennt biopics - The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, Big Eyes etc... MR TURNER slays them all with pure excellence of cinema.
The way that Leigh creates a film as impressionistic as the paintings of Turner himself,is a testament to the passion and artistic integrity of the filmmakers and their subject.
never boring for one second, with a production design as authentic as it gets, Mr Turner delves into how an artist distills the world through his mind's eye - analyzing light and colour in a way that revolutionized painting for the next century.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.