Leigh’s Movie About Turner: Luminous
Mike Leigh’s new movie about British painter, JMW Turner, has screened at Cannes. THR gushes: Leigh ‘has managed to conjure largely uneventful if scrupulously well-researched data into a luminous and moving film about one of Britain’s greatest artists. Anchored by a masterful performance by Timothy Spall (pictured) in a role he was born to play.’ Oscar nomination? Other journalists found the film beautiful but flat — like watching paint dry. Isn’t that appropriate here?
