Mr. Turner - Master of Light

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Movie
German title Mr. Turner - Master of Light
Original title Mr. Turner
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 150 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Mike Leigh
script Mike Leigh
production Georgina Lowe ,
Michel Saint-Jean ,
Malte Grunert
music Gary Yershon
camera Dick Pope
cut Jon Gregory
occupation

Mr. Turner is a 2014 British feature film directed by Mike Leigh . Timothy Spall stars in the lead role of the British landscape painter William Turner .

action

The film begins when Turner is already a well-known and reasonably wealthy landscape painter. He lives with his father, a former barber, who helps him prepare the paints and canvases and take care of visitors. As an eccentric, generous and humorous loner, Turner is often monosyllabic to the point of rudeness in social dealings, but can also use very educated language.

Scenes show how Turner finds the basic ideas for his pictures. His sketchbook is a constant companion and basis of his pictures. The old seaman Booth tells that he was a carpenter on a slave ship, and Turner then paints his picture The Slave Ship . Turner and attendants are rowed on the Thames and can watch a warship being towed to be scrapped. Turner paints The Fighting Temeraire . On his travels he watches a steam train. This leads to the painting Rain, Steam and Speed ​​- The Great Western Railway .

He's always drawn to the seaside town of Margate , where he went to school. Here he paints the roaring sea and shows the power of light with intense colors, especially ocher and yellow tones. At one point he even lets himself be tied up on the high seas in the lookout of a sailing ship in order to better represent the drama of the sea on the screen. His fast painting technique was considered extraordinary, as well as his spitting on the canvas and certain closely guarded paint colors.

When his father dies, Turner falls into depression . First of all, he received recognition for his work as a painter through exhibitions. a. adding a buoy to his own image before all eyes . However, his images are becoming increasingly abstract and he is losing recognition from his wealthy, noble customers after Queen Victoria commented negatively about them. In the Royal Academy he is still respected, but also isolated as an eccentric. While his London house with the attached sales rooms is ultimately only inhabited by his housekeeper, the painter takes refuge in Margate with the practically gifted landlady and widow Sophia Booth, who takes care of him until his death. The last shot shows Turner's housekeeper in his now abandoned studio with paints and canvases.

In his will, Turner decreed that his works should go to the British state. At the end of his life, he refuses to sell his entire art collection to a wealthy citizen.

production

Several film production companies were involved in the film production and were responsible for the completion. The companies Film4 Productions , Focus Features International (FFI), Lipsync Productions , Thin Man Films and Xofa Productions worked together on the drama Mr. Turner . For film distribution in the United States is Sony Pictures and United Kingdom Entertainment One responsible.

The film was shot in England . The places were Kingsand in the county of Cornwall , Petworth in West Sussex , Luton County Bedfordshire , Wentworth in South Yorkshire , in the London district of Westminster and the District Three Rivers of the county Hertfordshire . The digital cameras Arri Alexa Plus from Arnold & Richter Cine Technik and a Canon EOS C500 from Canon were used for the recordings . The images were saved in ARRIRAW and Canon Cinema RAW formats.

publication

The drama premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival on May 15, 2014. The British production was screened at several film festivals in the USA from August 29. It was also Mr. Turner in Canada on the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, and the Vancouver International Film Festival presented from 28 September. In their own country, the drama was only shown from October 10th at the London Film Festival before it was shown in cinemas on October 31st. The theatrical release in Germany took place on November 6, 2014. In Germany, the film had previously been shown at the Hof International Film Festival from October 24. Prokino released the film on Blu-ray in 2015. The disc includes an audio commentary by director Mike Leigh and the 30-minute making-of The Color World of Mr. Turner .

Awards

reception

The film-dienst judged that the film tirelessly brought together "a myriad of loosely connected moments and episodes from Turner's last 25 years - a mosaic of his life, but also the circumstances of the time and its challenges". The film magazine Cinema said that the film caused enthusiasm in Cannes not least because of Timothy Spall's performance. The color scheme of the film, which is based on the “aesthetics of the painter”, makes the film itself a work of art. The film website kino.de describes the film drama as a “brilliant film biography” that is “consistently fascinating, but largely dispenses with emotional involvement”. Rudolf Worschech from the film magazine epd Film considers the film to be “one of the most fascinating artist films in recent years. Leigh does not push the artist off his pedestal, nor does he give him the halo of genius. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Mr. Turner - Master of Light . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2015 (PDF; test number: 145 439 V).
  2. ↑ a b c Foundas, Scott: Cannes Film Review: 'Mr. Turner '. Variety , May 15, 2014, accessed October 21, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Ben Child: Timothy Spall to play JMW Turner in Mike Leigh biopic. the Guardian, October 23, 2012, accessed October 21, 2014 .
  4. ↑ “Mr. Turner - Masters of Light ”by Mike Leigh. Retrieved October 21, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Mr. Turner. Film4, accessed October 21, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Kaspar Heinrich: Biopic "Mr. Turner - Master of Light": A coarse block with a delicate line. Der Spiegel, November 6, 2014, accessed December 7, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Mr. Turner - Master of Light. Retrieved October 21, 2014 .
  8. ↑ London Film School celebrate Cannes win. May 29, 2014, accessed October 21, 2014 .
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  10. ↑ Mr. Turner - Master of Light. Cinema , accessed October 21, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Mr. Turner - Master of Light. Busch Entertainment Media (kino.de), accessed on October 21, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Critique of Mr. Turner. epd film , accessed October 30, 2014 .