The CAVe C-Fylm Film Club will operate on the fourth Thursday of each month for the foreseeable future.
Mr Turner
This film 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.
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"To use a word often associated with Turner and his art, it's sublime."
"Timothy Spall inhabits the role so completely he disappears within in it, a trick of the light."
" Revives an era in astonishing, delicate detail, then moves through the space with a documentarian's eye. Leigh takes Turner out of art history and puts him back in the world."
"One of the finest films about an artist ever made, fashioned by a filmmaker who's a notable artist himself."
Thursday 26th March
Doors open at 7.15pm for registration to C-Fylm £5 (cash only)
Members' entrance: Adults: £4 U18s: £3
Start time: 7.30pm
Callington Town Hall
NOTE: NEW C-FYLM MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED (AVAILABLE ON DOOR)