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One of my all time favorites.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

"Girl With a Pearl Earring" combines the crafts of production design, cinematography and musical score sublimely. Director Peter Webber stands back, handling his cast in restraining fashion. Female lead, played by Scarlett Johansson on the verge to have her breakthrough with "Lost in Translation", releasing at international film festivals at the same time, gives the character of Griet undermined cold appearance. Nevertheless her potential is not fully explored in an adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's equally named novel on the evolutionary creation of the painting by Johannes Vermeer in 1665. Peter Webber delivers hardly the overall punchline "You've seen inside me", when Scarlett Johansson needed to be pushed out of the comfort zone of the ghostly dragging peasant girl, cleaning the artist's household. British actor Colin Firth, given the part of Vermeer, almost in the same restrained fashion. The characters of Griet and Vermeer share one tender moment, when the girl's ear needs to be pierced in order to hang the ear ring at her earlobe. The actors' hands meet for brief moment of truth, which saves the otherwise conventionally playing interpretation of historical period piece. Additional supporting cast members as Tom Wilkinson and Cillian Murphy are also in the film, but share the same fate of not getting intrigued into their characters enough in order to elevate the picture beyond mediocrity. "Girl With A Pearl Earring" can be enjoyed for its splendor in audio-visual decor, mainly through the expertise of a flawless collaboration between Cinematographer Eduardo Serra and Ben Van Os and round finish of Alexandre Desplat's minimalist piano score. For Director Peter Webber it has been a craftsman exercise towards cinema, from which never really departed to this day.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend

If you tired of usual movies and want to take thorough pleasure, you should watch "Girl with a Pearl Eaeeing". This film will already intrigue you on the first minutes and it will be continuing up till the very end. On the first sight this film could seems you like boring and tiresome, however, if you continue watching, you realize, how wonderful it is. This mysterious plot without clear end make you think about important issues you haven't thought before. You may be in some shock after the screening. The action takes place in the Dutch Republic, in 1655. Griet (Scarlett Johansson) is a shy girl, which started to work as a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth). She is quite and doesn't attract many attention from the house residents. Nevertheless, she drew the attention of the Johannes Vermeer, because, despite her young age, she can feel the process of the painting, colors, mechanism for creating pictures. Vermeer appreciates her deep in sight and once ask her secretly to pose for a new picture... Actors coped with their roles perfectly. Glances, smiles, silence, tone of voices - all of in is played distinctly. The director - Peter Webber - managed with the transfer of the main idea. Music by Alexandre Desplat, who also worked on the films like "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", "The King's Speech", "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is fantastic and it helps us to feel deeply what the main heroes are feeling. To sum up, it can not be denied that some films we watching are marginally creating our culture, our world outlook, and this very film could give us many different interesting issues for thinking about. You can enjoy this film in all occasions: sunny day or rainy night, in a good mood on in a bad spirit.

Scarlett Johansson is brilliant and so are all the other actors. The movie was done so well, I do hope it got awarded for almost everything... I loved it. The first time I saw Scarlett was in Ghost World. She had a small part but she really came on as a very smart person, which I totally think she is. Despite what others say, she has a beautiful face and her lips and innocence are to die for... she is a brilliant actress, I must say it again. She doesn't need makeup, yet when she does wear it she is va va voom beautiufl. Others are just jealous of her. She seems to have it all. Do watch this movie on demand, it was one of the top movies most viewed on comcast.

A film about a famous painting by Vermeer, itself has to be framed like a painting. So kudos to the cinematographer and the art director for a gorgeous looking film and Alexandre Desplat brings the right notes with the accompanying music.The film depicts Dutch society at the time for a young peasant girl thrown into a religious yet avantgarde household and never quite knowing her place. Scarlett Johansson really hits her stride as Griet showing vulnerability and beauty as well as a yearning to understand art.Colin Firth on the other hand seems to be saddled with a bad wig and you never get into his Vermeer because he always appears to be solemn or brooding or about to lash out as he lives a life of pecuniary and painting commissions in order to make ends meet.Little is known about the artist Vermeer other than that he had lots of children and debt. The film depicting the painting and the characterisation of Griet is fiction. However the film with its is light, shades and colour is a picture.