Product Overview
Mr. Turner DVD 2014 / Directed by Mike Leigh / Starring: Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Lesley Manville
UPC 5996051210107
MADE IN EU
REGION 2 PAL DVD
Audio: English 5.1, Hungarian 2.0, Czech 5.1, Polish 5.1, Russian 5.1
Subtitles: English, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Croatian, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Ukrainian
Total Runtime: 114 minutes
English Summary:
Mr. Turner is a 2014 biographical drama film based on the last 25 years of the life of artist J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). Written and directed by Mike Leigh, the film stars Timothy Spall in the title role, with Dorothy Atkinson, Paul Jesson, Marion Bailey, Lesley Manville, and Martin Savage. It premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where Spall won the award for Best Actor and Dick Pope received a special jury prize for the film's cinematography.
The film depicts the last quarter-century of the British painter J. M. W. Turner's life. Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by his housekeeper, Hannah Danby, whom he takes for granted and occasionally uses sexually, he forms a close and loving relationship with a seaside landlady, Mrs. Booth, with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
Turner travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits a brothel, 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.
Hungarian Summary:
Turner csak a képeinek és a festészetnek él, fel sem tűnik neki az érte rajongó házvezetőnője. Idejének jelentős részét Margate-en tölti, hogy ihletet merítsen a szemet gyönyörködtető kikötői tájból. Itt találkozik a fogadósnéval, akivel a későbbiekben Chelsea-ben inkognitóban élt együtt, és ahol végül a halál is érte.
Cast / Szereplők:
- Timothy Spall as J. M. W. Turner: The controversial artist; he never married but had two lovers. He fathered two children with one, though he denied paternity.
- Dorothy Atkinson as Hannah Danby (1786—1853): Turner's devoted housekeeper for 40 years, whom he exploits sexually in the film. (Leigh said that the sexual relationship was "an invention not based on any historical evidence".) She suffered from the skin disease psoriasis and died two years after Turner.
- Marion Bailey as Sophia Booth (1798—1875): Turner's landlady and lover, twice widowed, with one son by her first husband. After her second husband died, she became involved with Turner.
- Paul Jesson as William Turner Snr (1745—1829): Turner's father, a barber. His wife died young in a mental hospital, and their only other child died at 5. He lived with his artist son until his death, which deeply affected Turner.
- Lesley Manville as Mary Somerville, a scientist and friend of Turner. She gained renown at a time when women engaging seriously in scientific study was not condoned.
- Martin Savage as Benjamin Robert Haydon: Turner's friend, an artist who committed suicide.
- Ruth Sheen as Sarah Danby (1760—1861): Hannah's aunt by marriage and Turner's first lover and the mother of his two unacknowledged daughters. Her husband and Hannah's uncle, a musician, had died, leaving her a young widow.
- David Horovitch as Dr Price: Turner's doctor
- Karl Johnson as Mr. Booth, a sea captain and second husband of Sophia Booth
- Peter Wight as Joseph Gillott: wealthy arts patron
- Joshua McGuire as John Ruskin
- Stuart McQuarrie as Ruskin's father
- Sylvestra Le Touzel as Ruskin's mother
- Leo Bill as J. E. Mayall: pioneering photographer
- Kate O'Flynn as Prostitute: Eliza is the young prostitute sketched by Turner.
- Sinead Matthews as Queen Victoria: the young queen who sneers at Turner's later work.
- Karina Fernandez as Miss Coggins: musician who plays Dido's Lament by Henry Purcell, to Turner's singing.
- Richard Bremmer as George Jones: artist famous of battle scenes
- Mark Stanley as Clarkson Stanfield: marine painter
- Jamie Thomas King as David Roberts: Scottish Orientalist painter
- Tom Wlaschiha as Prince Albert
- Patrick Godfrey as Lord Egremont: arts patron (such as Carew) and owner of Petworth House where Turner spent much time.
- Niall Buggy as John Carew: Irish sculptor
- Fred Pearson as Sir William Beechy: portrait painter
- Tom Edden as C. R. Leslie: genre painter
- Clive Francis as Martin Archer Shee: portrait painter
- Robert Portal as Sir Charles Eastlake: painter and gallery director
- James Fleet as John Constable: landscape painter, doyen of the Romantic movement
- Nicholas Jones as Sir John Soane: neo-classical architect and art collector
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Henry William Pickersgill: portrait painter
- Simon Chandler as Sir Augustus Wall Callcott: landscape artist.
- Edward de Souza as Thomas Stothard: painter and engraver
- Oliver Maltman as theatre actor
- Sam Kelly as theatre actor
| Directed by | Mike Leigh |
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| Produced by | Georgina Lowe |
| Written by | Mike Leigh |
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| Music by | Gary Yershon |
| Cinematography | Dick Pope |
| Edited by | Jon Gregory |
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| Distributed by | Entertainment One Films[1] (United Kingdom) Diaphana Films (France) Prokino Filmverleih (Germany) |
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| Language | English |
