Mr. Turner is a 2014 biopic based on the life of notable British painter J. M. W. Turner, written and directed by Mike Leigh and produced by Georgina Lowe. The film premiered at the Cannes Film ...

Timothy Spall portrays British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh's buzzy biopic By Ashley Lee Four-time Cannes competition veteran (and 1996 Palme d’Or winner for Secrets & Lies), Leigh ...

Four-time Cannes competition vet Mike Leigh returns to the fest with a biopic about British painter J.M.W. Turner, starring Timothy Spall. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Viewers drawn to ...

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Sunlight is arguably the unmitigated superstar of director Mike Leigh’s new film, Mr. Turner, a biopic of 19th-century British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner. Renowned character actor Timothy Spall ...

Mike Leigh specializes in incisive social comedy-dramas (Naked; Secrets & Lies). But in Mr. Turner, his first period film since 1999’s Topsy-Turvy tackled Gilbert and Sullivan, Leigh examines the last ...

The character actor finally gets his chance to hog the spotlight in Mike Leigh's "Mr. Turner." The biopic marks Leigh’s first one in 15 years, following 1999’s “Topsy-Turvy,” in which Spall, a Leigh ...