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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its exacting period texture, painterly compositions and unsentimental attention to an artist’s private rituals echo Mr. Turner’s blend of beauty, abrasive personality and intimate domestic observation.
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Why this pick
A patient, luminous study of painter Antonio López García at work, it shares Mr. Turner’s fascination with artistic process, changing light and the quiet compromises surrounding a life devoted to seeing.
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Why this pick
This restrained portrait of self-taught painter Séraphine de Senlis finds the same tactile connection between art, class and solitude, with period detail observed rather than prettified.
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Why this pick
Its formal, meticulously composed English landscape and sly portrait of an arrogant artist make it a more stylised but complementary companion to Mr. Turner.
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Why this pick
Jarman treats the painter’s life as a sequence of vivid tableaux, matching the appeal of an artist biography that lets texture, bodies and images reveal as much as conventional plot.
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01 / THE STORY
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, London, where he dies.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
JMW Turner
Hannah Danby
Sarah Danby
Dr Price
John Ruskin
JE Mayall
George Jones
Clarkson Stanfield
