GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING (2003)

PETER WEBBER

Drama Painting / Sculpture Romance 10th - 19th Centuries Historical Recommended

Cast

SCARLETT JOHANSSON TOM WILKINSON COLIN FIRTH JUDY PARFITT CILLIAN MURPHY ALAKINA MANN ESSIE DAVIS

Plot

In the home of master painter, Johannes Vermeer, resides beautiful young maid, Griet. Increasingly drawn to the girl, Johannes sees in her a fellow spirit and as he brings her deeper and deeper into his confidence so the intensity of their relationship begins to create a fractious atmosphere within the household, a mood at odds with the inspiration she embues within the painter himself. The Girl With A Pearl Earring, taken from Tracy Chevalier's remarkable novel, is a visual feast that manages to convey both Griet's purity and strength in the dangerous world this innocent now so tenuously occupies.