Cannes 2014: MR. TURNER Trailer

Although this year’s Cannes Film Festival just kicked off, we’ve already been hearing some buzz about what’s played so far, mostly in the form of harsh criticism of the Grace Kelly biopic Grace of Monaco.  One film that’s getting a good amount of positive buzz however is Mike Leigh‘s Mr. Turner.

Another biopic, Mr. Turner stars the wonderful Timothy Spall as famed British painter J.M.W. Turner.  A new trailer for the film has just been released, which you can watch below.  There’s no US release date as of yet, however I would suspect sometime tis fall in order to nestle itself in with the other award contenders.

‘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. 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.