If, like me, you’ve been catching up on your Oscar-nominated films lately, you’ve probably seen the trailer for a certain art-house film over and over and over again. That film, Mr. Turner, starring Timothy Spall, is finally coming to the Art Theater Co-op. If you’re like me (or a couple of people I know), then this is pretty exciting news.
The film’s synopsis, per the Art’s website:
This film 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, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.
Mr. Turner will show Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., Sunday at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m., and Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
