Audience’s choice: Mr. Turner

Mr. Turner (2014).

Audience’s choice: Mr. Turner
 

Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner won this year’s audience voting, so the film will be screened once more on Sunday at 9:45 pm at Lapinsuu. The film is a carefully constructed drama on the radical painter J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), whose role in reshaping the art of painting was only realized by future generations.
 

In preparation for his role as Turner, actor Timothy Spall studied painting in order make his brush strokes authentic, while the roles of other artists of the period were only cast with actors who have actually painted in real life. Dorothy Atkinson is magnificent as Turner’s faithful housekeeper. Spall deservedly won at Cannes for his masterly role.