Mr. Turner

A FILM BY Mike Leigh

Ecstatically beautiful.

- Variety

Luminous and moving.

- The Hollywood Reporter

Timothy Spall has always been terrific, this is the performance of his career.

- The Village Voice

On couronnerait volontiers pour le rôle-titre Timothy Spall. Mais quel comédien!

- Odile Tremblay, Le Devoir

L'hommage à l'univers pictural de ce peintre Turner est magnifiquement rendu

- Marc-André Lussier, Lapresse.ca

Synopsis

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.