Mr. Turner (2014) Trailer

Mr. Turner

Mr. Turner is a forthcoming 2014 British biographical drama film, written and 

directed by Mike Leigh, and starring Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Paul Jesson,

 Marion Bailey and Ruth Sheen.

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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. 

Written by Entertainment One