Mr Turner is one of the biopic pictures to watch out for this year, as the story of British artist Turner is brought to the big screen.
Mr Turner
Mr Turner marks the return of Mike Leigh to the big screen for the first time since the success of Another Year back in 2010: he has also penned the screenplay.
Timothy Spall has already enjoyed a long and illustrious career, but he will take on the title role in this exciting new film.
Lesley Manville, Marion Bailey, Dorothy Atkinson and Paul Jesson will all join Spall on the cast list.
Mr Turner is part of the Cannes Film Festival 2014 line-up, and will once again see Leigh compete for the prestigious Palme d'Or.
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.
Leigh is famed for producing fantastic character driven film, and Mr Turner looks set to continue that fine trend.
Mr Turner was released 31st October 2014
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