Girl With a Pearl Earring

Girl With a Pearl Earring
by Peter Webber

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Actor: Cillian Murphy, Colin Firth, Judy Parfitt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Peter Webber
Brand: JOHANSSON,SCARLETT
Producer: Anand Tucker
Producer: Andy Paterson
Producer: Anna Campeau
Producer: Cameron McCracken
Producer: Daria Jovicic
Writer: Olivia Hetreed
Writer: Tracy Chevalier
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate

DVD Reviews of Girl With a Pearl Earring

DVD Review: Beauty, love, & tenderness
Summary: 5 Stars

Don't expect a factual recount of VerMeer's life or of the circumstances surrounding the painting of the Girl with the Pearl Earring.
Do expect a beautifully told story with great acting - how can you beat Colin Firth & Scarlett Johansson.
Do expect beautiful costumes, sets and lighting.
Do expect compelling emotional involvment with the characters.
MUST SEE for any artist - marvelous directing with many offerings of diverse inspirating views - be it abstract, portrait, still life or landscape!
BUY THIS movie if you enjoy entertaiment for the sake of being entertained - a brief escape from the grind of the world.
BUY THIS movie if you enjoy beauty.

This movie is NOT for those expecting MEGA-action. This is NOT for those who cannot appreciate subtlety in relationships. This is probably not for anyone who doesn't look past the focal point of the frame immediately on the screen.

DVD Review: fabulous
Summary: 5 Stars

The imagery in this movie evokes the atmosphere of the old dutch paintings. The pace is meditative and the pictures breathe and come to life... Bewitching...

A remarkable work.

DVD Review: defective
Summary: 1 Stars

I am very displeased with the DVD GIRL WITH A PEARL ERRING. I purchased a used DVD that had a gaurantee in good condition on it. It played great until almost the end. Then stuck and dragged through until the ending without a voice.

DVD Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars

The Bottom Line:

An impressive adaptation of Chevalier's novel that (for my money) does many things better than the book, Girl With a Pearl Earring resists any urges to amplify the book's quiet drama and instead turns in a subtly effective little story.

DVD Review: Another lost opportunity
Summary: 3 Stars

I give this movie 3 stars due to the transcendent beauty of the filming.
I give it only 3 due to the second half of the movie. I give the first half 5 stars plus! The problem? It is similar to such movies as "Immortal Beloved", the one about Beethoven that has gotten so many rave reviews. They are both lost opportunities of creating movies about artists, composers which reflect truth. How much more exciting, interesting and moving would it have been if it had followed what we know of the life of the artist and the creation of the painting...which is not much, but less is more.

In this one, we know little about the life of Vermeer, so what do directors, screenwriters, producers do...they make up salacious sensational soap-opera events to attract the 21st century movie going audience. What they have done is blasphemous to the integrity and art of Vermeer. Why couldn't we have had a movie about ONLY the creation of this incredible painting..."The Girl with the Pearl Earring"? Just the making of the painting, without adding fabricated rapes and domestic marital strife. It is almost as if the creators of this movie hated Vermeer.
Shame on you. Shame on those who created the false sensationalism of the Beethoven Immortal Beloved movie too.

If you purchase this movie. Watch only the first half. The last half is not about art or Vermeer, but about money for filmakers. Filmakers who have no understanding of what true beauty is, and the spiritual integrity which ensues if you follow truth rather than cheap tawdry fiction.

P.S. The actors were wonderful, I give them 5 stars, despite the meretricious screenplay.

Description of Girl With a Pearl Earring

A poor seventeenth-century servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty whispers and rumors circulate throughout the town.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 22-FEB-2005
Media Type: DVD

You wouldn't think a movie could look like a Vermeer painting, but Girl with a Pearl Earring is filmed with an amazing range of luminous glows that evoke the Dutch artist's masterworks. Of course, it helps that much of the movie centers on Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Ghost World), whose creamy skin and full lips have a luminosity of their own. Johansson plays Griet, a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth, Bridget Jones' Diary, Fever Pitch), who finds herself in a web of jealousy, artistic inspiration, and social machinations. Though the pace is slow, Girl with a Pearl Earring genuinely conveys some sense of an artist's process, as well as offering many chaste yet sensual moments between Firth and Johansson. Also featuring Essie Davis as Vermeer's bitter wife and Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom) as a wealthy patron with eyes for Griet. --Bret Fetzer

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