'Mr Turner'
May 15 2014
Video: Film Four
Ooh, now this looks like a cracker, to judge by the trailer. And Timothy Spall is never less than brilliant either. I can't wait to see it. The Telegraph has already given it 5 stars.
I presume the enthusiastic young fellow praising Turner's works to him is Ruskin. In which case, I hope the film shows Turner saying of Ruskin (in what is my favourite art historical quote of all time), 'He sees more in my pictures than I ever painted.' It's a line all theorising art historians should remember...
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