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| Nominated for P’alm D’or and Won at Cannes Film Festival Director: Mike Leigh ['Naked'] Cast: Timothy Spall, Ruth Sheen Synopsis: 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. |
