Thursday, July 11, 2019

Thursday Movie Picks #261: Muses



Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share your movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple: based on the theme of the week pick three to five movies and tell us why you picked them. For further details and the schedule visit the series main page here.

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Muses

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This was another tough theme and I have a feeling there's a very obvious movie that I am forgetting.

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
A fictional take on the creation of Vermeer's painting. Love this one. The movie looks beautiful, the set design and the lighting makes everything look like they came right out off the paintings. Then there's also the music which was great.

Renoir (2012)
Set in the French Riviera, a young woman arrives at the home of the elderly Renoir and becomes his new muse just as his son returns home injured from World War I. Now this movie is less about the creation of any particular paintings, though there are lots of painting scenes, but more on the family drama. It's an interesting movie and another one that often looked like it jumped off the paintings.

The Invisible Woman (2013)
The film is about the secret affair that Charles Dickens had with a much younger actress, the so titled invisible woman who is said to have inspired many of his female characters . I remember very little of the movie. I know I didn't like it as mush as the above two and I think I might have found it slow as well.


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5 comments:

  1. I love your first 2 picks. Girl with the Pearl Earring is an excellent film about what might have been about this painting since so little is known bout Vermeer. Renoir is a gem that I loved and was lucky to see it in a small theatre...you’re right about the scenery and paintings. I haven’t seen the third film but I love Ralph Fiennes so I would love to see it

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    1. Renoir - I know right! The poster is a good representation of how the movie looks like visually.

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  2. We match on Girl With The Pearl Earring! Great film. I haven't seen your other picks though.

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  3. I think I've seen the first but I'm not sure. Probably not. So yeah, I am completely unaware of movies about muses. :D

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    1. I think you would have remembered Girl With The Pearl Earring if you saw it. It is a very distinct film.

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