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Monday, May 19, 2014

Trailer for Mike Leigh's MR. TURNER Starring Timothy Spall

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The first trailer for the biopic "Mr. Turner" has been released. Written and directed by Mike Leigh ("Happy-Go-Lucky"), the film is an exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's (Timothy Spall) life. Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson and Ruth Sheen. The film is nominated for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

"Mr. Turner" opens in theaters on October 31st in the U.K.

Watch the trailer after the jump.




Official 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."



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