Twice before, first with 'Topsy-Turvy' and then with 'Vera Drake', Mike
Leigh has punctuated his bittersweet studies of contemporary life with
period dramas. Now, with 'Mr Turner', the British director of 'Naked'
and 'Secrets and Lies' takes us back to the nineteenth century and the
later years of the celebrated, groundbreaking, difficult painter JMW
Turner (1775-1851). Sad and joyful, 'Mr Turner' offers a wonderfully
rich tapestry of experience and digs deeply into a complicated,
contradictory life.