A daring, intimate fictionalization of the circumstances surrounding the inspiration behind the famous painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.
“Girl With a Pearl Earring” is a quiet movie, shaken from time to time by ripples of emotional turbulence far beneath the surface. It is about things not said, opportunities not taken, potentials not realized, lips unkissed. Do not believe those who think this movie is about the “mystery” of the model, or Vermeer’s sources of inspiration, or medieval gender roles, or whether the mother-in-law was the man in the family. “Girl With a Pearl Earring” is about how they share a professional understanding that neither one has in any way with anyone else alive. – Roger Ebert
Set in approximately 1665.
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy.
Note: ”Girl With a Pearl Earring” is rated PG-13 for shadowy sexual innuendo and suggestive situations.