We watched the British bio epic Mr Turner last night. At 150 minutes long, it had to grow when you, but it was a good movie in the end.
It stars Timothy Spall in his best performance to date as a gruff eccentric artist who often spoke in grunts and snorts and who was somehow still something of a ladies man.
The notion of Timothy Spall as a ladies man is a bit of a shock. Timothy Spall is a great character actor but in appearance, he is very much a face for radio.
Turner was a brilliant 19th century artist. The picture captures that superbly through the colour, lighting and scene setting of the Mike Leigh film and through Timothy Spall’s two years to learn how to paint so that he carried off the painting though he was a natural.
As I said, it’s a long movie that takes time to grow on you in part because of the setting up the the life of Turner and the era in which he lived.
We got the tickets as a last-minute gift that someone else won on the radio for a pre-screening.
As we did not pay, it is hard to give a recommendation about a film you largely get for free.
I find something significant in passing over the $16 in terms of focusing your attention on the value for money from a film. I had that view before I studied economics.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:27:32
Can’t wait to see it.
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