Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
71 %
Reviews Counted: 169 Fresh: 120 Rotten:49 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Consensus:
Visually arresting, but the story could be told with a bit more energy.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Theatrical Release: Dec 12, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $11,505,906
Synopsis: Delft, Holland, 1665. After her father, a tile painter, is blinded in a kiln explosion, seventeen-year-old Griet must work to support her family. She becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer and gradually attracts the master painter's attention. Though worlds apart in upbringing,... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, Essie Davis
Director: Peter Webber
Screenwriter: Olivia Hetreed
Producer: Andrew Paterson, Anand Tucker
Composer: Alexander Desplat
Screenwriter: Olivia Hetreed
Producer: Andrew Paterson, Anand Tucker
Composer: Alexander Desplat
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The movie benefits greatly from Johansson's gift for understated delivery, but she's less assured in this demure, largely non-verbal role than she was as a modern young woman in Ghost World and Lost in Translation.
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06/03/08
An entertaining but inauthentic adaptation, a production which reads more like a Hollywood teensploit than a historical epic from Holland.
04/25/07
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06/24/06
Esta no es una cinta sobre el drama de las relaciones humanas sino sobre la belleza de la pintura, el poder de los sentimientos y la intensidad creadora de los artistas.
05/03/06
... a movie about a kind of understanding that rarely passes between human beings; a solemn, sacred meeting of minds.
01/10/05
Girl with the Pearl Earring is about the liberating and inspiring experience of being seen.
12/06/04
Like the finest of Vermeer's paintings, the film's richly textured elements blend perfectly, unforgettably framed.
10/14/04
Girl gives us a vividly painted world but only patchily drawn characters — in that sense, it gets Vermeer only half right
09/30/04
Girl with a pearl earring (...) is a movie of few words and beautiful pictures, and the story is as understated as the acting.
08/07/04
A terrifically realised film, startlingly emotional and wonderfully visceral.
07/20/04
To watch Girl With a Pearl Earring is to sense that one great photograph after another is unfolding before the eyes.
05/14/04
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04/09/04
... the true star of this film is Eduardo Serra, who should have had the Oscar. Sweeping fantasy vistas are easy; creating a sensual feast through the camera’s lens is hard.
04/06/04
Every year or so a movie gets released that is cherished more for its look than its actual content.
03/26/04
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