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Artist biopics: like watching paint dry?: They certainly don't have to be, and Mike Leigh's Mr Turne...

Artist biopics: like watching paint dry?: They certainly don't have to be, and Mike Leigh's Mr Turne...

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Artist biopics: like watching paint dry?: They certainly don't have to be, and Mike Leigh's Mr Turner is a shining example

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Artist biopics: like watching paint dry?: They certainly don't have to be, and Mike Leigh's Mr Turner is a shining example

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Dublin: The Irish Times Ltd

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The Irish times, 2014-10-07

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  Even the 17th-century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer is romanticised, in both senses of the term, in the film adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel Girl with a Pearl Earring . The fact that it is oddly at variance with the character of Vermeer's paintings didn't hurt the film at the box office, but the bottom line is that it offers zero i...

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