Girl with a Pearl Earring
When her father goes blind, Griet (Scarlett Johansson) must go to work as a maid for painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth). She then becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
1960, London, England, UK
22 November 1984, New York City, New York, USA
1970, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
23 July 1960, Dublin, Ireland
1963, London, England, UK
27 October 1961, West Kirby, Merseyside, England, UK
10 September 1960, Grayshott, Hampshire, England, UK
5 February 1948, Wharfedale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
1 August 1990, Surrey, England, UK
16 December 1988, London, England, UK
25 May 1976, Douglas, Cork, Ireland
1 November 1943, Birmingham, England, UK
20 March 1987, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK
June 03, 2008
The movie benefits greatly from Johansson's gift for understated delivery, but she's less assured in this demure, largely non-verbal role than she was as a modern young woman in Ghost World and Lost in Translation.
January 30, 2004
Lavish attention to historical detail, the thorough immersion in this unusual world and Johansson's impressive performance make Girl With a Pearl Earring memorable but not a masterpiece.
January 16, 2004
The picture is simply ravishing, but at times it falls prey to its own contemplations.
April 25, 2007
An entertaining but inauthentic adaptation, a production which reads more like a Hollywood teensploit than a historical epic from Holland.
December 24, 2010
Older teens and adults will enjoy. Book is better.
January 30, 2004
Working from an intelligent, understated screenplay by Olivia Hetreed, director Peter Webber (an acclaimed documentarian) proceeds with a stunning assurance.
January 29, 2004
A feast for the eyes.
May 09, 2009
The film is an intriguing speculative account of the creation of one of Vermeer's most famous and sensual paintings. Every shot in the film looks like it was taken right out of a painting from Delft, Holland circa 1665...
December 06, 2004
Girl with the Pearl Earring is about the liberating and inspiring experience of being seen.
January 21, 2004
A rare and elegant film bathed in the kind of soft, delicate light that can build unexpectedly to feelings of both anxiety and bliss.
January 10, 2005
... a movie about a kind of understanding that rarely passes between human beings; a solemn, sacred meeting of minds.
January 22, 2004
A virtual ricochet-fest of eyeball action. Those looks, those glares, those gapes, those gawks!
