MR TURNER

Contact

Organizer: Keswick Alhambra Cinema

Name: Keswick Alhambra Cinema

Phone: 017687 72195

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.keswickalhambra.co.uk/in-cinema/mr-turner/alhambra-keswick-1

Address

St. Johns Street
Keswick, Cumbria,
Keswick
CA12 5AG

Price Notes

£5-£7.50

Direction

The Alhambra Cinema is located in St Johns Street just up from the Market Square.

Details

Mr. TURNER (12A)
5pm Tuesday 19th November  (+ brief intro by Charli Summers, Tullie House Museum)
1pm Friday 22nd November

To coincide with Tullie House Museum's Turner: Northern Exposure exhibition, which runs till January 2020, we are delighted to screen acclaimed director Mike Leigh's beautiful 2014 film bringing to life the untold story of the great painter.

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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