Mr Turner
Film4 HD, 11.20pm/film4+1, 12.20am
Sex ●●● Violence ●●● Language ●●●
Unaccountably snubbed at the Baftas and Oscars, Timothy Spall deservedly won the Best Actor award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his eloquent portrayal of JMW Turner in this magnificent biopic, revealing the artist in all his contradictions and genius. Depicting the 19th-century painter in the last 25 years of his life, director Mike Leigh’s film is an astonishing achievement, too, daringly upending the timid conventions of most period biopics to create a compelling cinematic portrait. 2014, 12, 150MIN