Hitting cinemas tomorrow (Friday October 31), Mr. Turner has already been garnering praise from across the film world. It finds Timothy Spall brilliantly cast as the grunting, complex artist JMW Turner, as director Mike Leigh examines key episodes from his later years.
A taste of the film is below, as Turner greets his fellow painters at The Royal Academy.
Talking to Hot Press' Craig Fitzpatrick, Leigh noted that this was a historically accurate event.
"The scene at the Royal Academy when he goes in and puts the red blob on the painting and all that stuff, actually happened. That’s a famous event that took place, there are various descriptions of it, loads of people were there so they saw what happened. So we’ve dramatised, in a fairly straightforward way, what we understand to have happened.
"But if you jumped into a time machine and went back to that moment," the filmmaker continues, "You can be absolutely sure that what you’d see bears no resemblance whatsoever to what’s in the film. Because how could it? So you’re drawing and bringing to life something, but in the end, it’s only our collective notion of what that was."

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