Mr. Turner
Short description
Mr. Turner follows the last quarter-century in the life of the British landscape painter J. M. W. Turner. He lives with his father, who also serves as his assistant, and with his devoted housekeeper Hannah Danby, whose feelings for him go unreturned. Turner moves between the Royal Academy, where his behaviour ruffles polite company, and travels that feed his painting, and he is not always considerate of those close to him. The death of his father leaves him deeply shaken, and his life takes a new direction when he meets Sophia Booth, who runs a lodging house by the sea.
Mike Leigh wrote and directed the film, which sits between Another Year and Peterloo in the run of features he has directed. Timothy Spall plays Turner, with Dorothy Atkinson as Hannah Danby, Marion Bailey as Sophia Booth, Paul Jesson as Turner's father and Lesley Manville among the supporting cast. Georgina Lowe produced.
The film was released in 2014 and runs 150 minutes. Its worldwide box office came to about 22 million dollars, modest for a production of this scale. On IMDb it holds 6.8 out of 10 from roughly 29,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.5 out of 10 from close to 600 votes, while critics rated it considerably higher, at 8.4 out of 10 across 189 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the request of director and screenwriter Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall, who played William Turner (1775-1851), spent two years learning to paint before filming began.
- A working model of the Planet locomotive, built in 1830 by Robert Stephenson and Company, was provided by the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. The locomotive was run on an old railway line in North Wales, laid from east to west. The filmmakers needed to capture the setting sun in the rear of the train – as Turner himself had painted it – and they had only one chance, as the locomotive was provided to them for just one day.
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