The British director Mike Leigh captures “the sublime, anarchic” JMW Turner (1775-1851) in “Mr. Turner,” a film that exposes the human side of the painter, considered one of the best landscape painters of all time.
In a tape of 149 minutes, Leigh with an award-winning work includes “Secrets and Lies”, “Vera Drake” or “Happy-Go-Lucky” explores the “complex and contradictory” personality London artist since I was admiring student Art in the 60s, confessed in an interview with Efe.
Back in 1998, when it was “Topsy-Turvy” -his other historically unique film, it occurred to him tell the story of Turner, “A giant among artists, determined and prolific revolutionary in its outlook and clairvoyant “he said.
His initial readings confirmed that fascinated him with light painter had a personality worthy of being examined, the challenge to contrast their “anarchic, erratic and vulnerable, selfish and sometimes insincere” character with “sublime epic and his” beauty.
That tension never leaves the screen in “Mr. Turner, “the film that opens on December 19 in Spain and is a strong candidate to British Bafta and Oscar.
The film, with a stellar cast of actors’ character, not will play themselves “-matiza the director, covering the last quarter of life of Joseph Mallord William Turner, when, among other things, he painted” The Fighting Temeraire “(” The ‘Fearless’ towed to dry dock “) to many his masterpiece.
Saddened by the death of his father, in this period the painter begins a relationship with the widow Sophia Booth, whom he settled in London’s Chelsea, leading a double life his faithful assistant and responsible for their study, Hannah, one discovers when he is on the verge of death.
At this time, traveling, painting, is related to patterns of art, visit brothels, stands out as member of the British Royal Academy of Arts -there in the film scene with a curious true rival John Constable-, despises his ex-lover Sarah Danby and his two daughters common and becomes an artist as I praised and vilified by the public and royalty.
A scene at the Royal Academy when Queen Victoria describes one of his works as “dirty yellow chaos” is based on real events, like the rest of the film, Leigh defined as “a responsible but imaginative evocation” of the artist’s life and times.
“Obviously, it’s not a documentary, is a dramatization”, accurate, and ensures that the script, which he also wrote, is based on rigorous research of art historian Jacqueline Riding, specifically hired to oversee the film.
Timothy Spall, a favorite of Leigh actors, offers a masterful embodiment of Turner, reflecting subtly that mixture of sensitivity and selfishness that often presents immersed in their world and with a marked tendency to growl.
“For all we know, Turner could be morose and taciturn, but also eloquent with a language adorned with classic, funny and poetic references, and yes, we know that emitted strange noises, “says the director during the interview in a London hotel.
Along with Spall, complete the cast other regular actors in productions of Leigh, as Dorothy Atkinson in the role of Hannah suffered Danby, Marion Bailey as Mrs. Booth, Paul Jesson as the father of Ruth Sheen as Turner and Sarah Danby.
Although also appear actors who had never worked with filmmaker Joshua McGuire among them, in the role of the critic John Ruskin pompous, Leigh admits that he likes “familiarity” rolling with known interpreters of admiring his ability to “grow the character.”
Despite be about a historical figure, the 71 award-winning director believes that “Mr. Turner “” is entirely consistent “with his previous work,” shares the same concerns about life and death, relationships between men and women and between parents and children, or the passage of time, “says
<. p> And as in his other films, Leigh experienced when shooting this film “a journey of discovery” which concluded with the feeling which can share the spectator of having “learned a lot”.
On the you notice things changed after making the film, notes that perhaps now look at the sky “otherwise”.
“I think that I appreciate more light,” he reveals.
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