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Girl with a Pearl Earring, 2003

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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Review: A wonderfully earnest, touching film

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is pure joy. A hugely emotional film with simple storytelling and a monstrously large heart.

A film about a hardworking, genuinely good human being pursuing their crazy dreams of buying a Christian Dior dress may well be the cinematic highlight of the year (more…)

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Girl With a Pearl Earring by Olivia Hetreed (adapted from the novel by Tracy Chevalier)

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‘Bridgerton’ Star Charithra Chandran To Lead Olivia Hetreed Drama ‘Song Of The Sun God’

29 SEPT 2022 DEADLINE | Bridgerton season two star Charithra Chandran has landed the lead in Olivia Hetreed drama Song of the Sun God, Deadline can reveal.

Chandran will also associate produce the six-parter, which is based on the is based on Shankari Chandran’s novel.

Girl With the Pearl Earring writer Hetreed’s adaptation follows the love, lies and misdemeanours of a Sri Lankan family across three generations in the UK, Australia and Sri Lanka. Chandran will play Leela, a young Australian woman living her life in London, largely disconnected from her own culture and unaware of long-held family secrets. But an intensely personal and dangerous journey takes her across three continents as she seeks to find her lost aunt and uncover the shocking reason for her disappearance.

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“Today, there’s Mrs. Harris.”

Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, 2022.

Dir. Anthony Fabian | Writ. Carroll Cartwright, Anthony Fabian, Keith Thompson & Olivia Hetreed | DOP Felix Wiedemann

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At some point the script becomes detached from the person who created the script, which is the scriptwriter. And by the time you've actually made a film, the script and the scriptwriter have kind of disappeared.

Olivia Hetreed (screenwriter)

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Mrs Harris Goes to Paris มิสซิสแฮร์ริสไปปารีส (2022) ซับไทย

เล่าเรื่อง Mrs Harris Goes to Paris มิสซิสแฮร์ริสไปปารีส (2022) Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris เป็น ภาพยนตร์ ดราม่าคอมเมดี้อิงประวัติศาสตร์ที่ฉาย ในปี 2022 กำกับและอำนวยการสร้างโดย Anthony Fabian จากบท ภาพยนตร์ที่เขาร่วมเขียนร่วมกับ Carroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson และ Olivia Hetreed เป็นภาพยนตร์เรื่องที่สามที่ดัดแปลงจากนวนิยายปี 1958 เรื่องMrs. 'Arris Goes to Parisโดย Paul Gallico นำแสดงโดย Lesley Manville , Isabelle Huppert , Lambert Wilson , Alba Baptista , Lucas Bravo , Ellen Thomas , Rose Williamsและ Jason Isaacs. ภาพยนตร์เรื่องนี้ทำรายได้ทะลุบ็อกซ์ออฟฟิศที่แข็งแกร่งใน Arthouse Circuit ของสหรัฐอเมริกา วิลล์ได้รับการเสนอชื่อเข้าชิงรางวัลลูกโลกทองคำสาขานักแสดงนำหญิงยอดเยี่ยมในภาพยนตร์ประเภทตลกหรือเพลงจากการแสดงของเธอ  เรื่องราวที่จะกล่าว  ในปี 1957 ที่ลอนดอน นางเอดา แฮร์ริส หญิงม่ายหญิงชำระล้าง หมกมุ่นกับชุดดิออร์ชั้นสูง ของลูกค้ารายหนึ่ง เป็นแรงดลใจให้คุณซื้อชุด Dior เป็นของตนเอง ภายหลังได้รับบำนาญจากการทำศึก-แม่ร้าง คุณเดินทางไปกรุงปารีสเพื่อทำแบบนั้น คุณสะดุดกับการแสดงคอลเลกชันสังสรรค์ครบรอบ 10 ปีของ Dior รวมทั้งเป็นเพื่อนกับ André นักบัญชี Dior และก็ Natasha ดารานางแบบของ Dior อย่างไรก็ดี Claudine ผู้อวย การ Dior ไม่สบอารมณ์ที่ Ada รุกล้ำเข้าไปในโลกที่แฟชั่นชั้น สูง Dior ประสบพบเจอปัญหาทางด้านการเงินอย่างมาก และก็ด้วยเหตุว่า Ada จะจ่ายเป็นเงินสด พวกเขาก็เลยตกลงอย่างไม่เต็มใจที่จะตัดเย็บเสื้อผ้าให้คุณ ขณะที่อยู่ภายในกรุงปารีสเพื่อฟิตติ้ง คุณอยู่กับอังเดรรวมทั้งเกื้อหนุนให้เขาแสดงความรักต่อทุ่งนาตาชา ซึ่งให้ความสนใจในปรัชญาอัตถิภาวนิยมเช่นกัน Mrs Harris Goes to Paris Mrs Harris Goes to Paris เมื่อ Claudine ถูกบังคับให้เลิกว่าจ้างบุคลากร Dior ผู้คนจำนวนมากด้วยเหตุผลทางด้านการเงิน Ada จัดนัดหมายหยุดงานและก็บังคับให้ Claudine แล้วก็Christian Diorฟังแนวความคิดของ André สำหรับในการปรับแต่งให้นำสมัยและก็ทำให้ธุรกิจมีผลกำไร  เอด้ากลับไปลอนดอนด้วยชุดของคุณ คุณให้ลูกค้าของคุณ Pamela ซึ่งเป็นผู้แสดงที่มีปัญหา คุณสวมมันไปงานอีเวนท์ มันติดไฟและก็ถูกทำลาย เพื่อนพ้อง Dior ของ Ada อ่านเกี่ยวกับหายนะในหนังสือพิมพ์รวมทั้งส่งชุดใหม่ให้คุณ ซึ่งในตอนแรกคุณอยากได้มากยิ่งกว่าชุดที่ซื้อมา ตัวอย่างหนัง ติดตาม Mrs Harris Goes to Paris มิสซิสแฮร์ริสไปปารีส (2022) https://youtu.be/iO9JcPbbmAA Read the full article

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First Take: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris - haute couture meets post-Covid cinema

SYNOPSIS: A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own.

In any other year, this film would have gone to the arthouse circuit - but given the current release schedule, fair play to Universal for putting this film out on a wide release, as the THIRD adaptation of the 1958 Mrs Harris book has promise, but ultimately doesn’t quite land with cinemagoers as well as the trailers did.

It has a certain old school charm about it, as director Anthony Fabian (who co-wrote the script with Carroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson and Olivia Hetreed) really does go all in on the 1950s imagery - but sadly the pacing does let the film down a lot. 1 hour 55 minutes to adapt a 157 page book barely leaves enough room to breathe at times, especially with the quality of some of the dialogue, but on the bright side, it is a visually stunning film thanks to Felix Wiedemann’s cinematography, and the score from Rael Jones is a Ronseal job: it does what it says on the tin.

On the performances, Lesley Manville makes that role her own, ultimately making what should’ve been a TV movie feel more at home on the big screen- she has quite rightly been the focus of the PR for this one, and it’s worked well with the audiences this film will undoubtedly attract. The rest of the starpower includes Isabelle Huppert, Alba Baptista, Lambert Wilson, Lucas Bravo, and rounding out that supporting cast, well, there’s only one way I can say this as a member of the church: hello to Jason Isaacs. It’s a film that has a lot of heart, but ultimately it won’t last long in cinemas; as I type this the local place I go to has dropped it from the schedule after just a week out and £800,000 at the UK box office.

THE VERDICT

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris has a lot of potential, but ultimately at a 1 hour 55 minute runtime, just feels a bit too long for its own good- but the performances just about make up for the pacing. It’s a film that will attract the older audiences back to the big screen though, and that’s all that matters really.

RATING: 3/5

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Girl With A Pearl Earring

The reason everyone is fascinated with the Mona Lisa is her eyes. Those eyes that follow you wherever you go and of which you don't  know what goes on behind them. Other paintings, less famous yet widely loved, have the same quality. 'The girl with the pearl' by Johannes Vermeer is one of them:

Vermeer was a painter from Delft (Holland) born in the second half of the seventeenth century, who was almost forgotten after his death, but at the same time, there was a kind of rediscovery. He left only 36 paintings, but each of them testifies to a rigorous discipline in composition, use of light and space.

'Girl With a Pearl Earring', based on Tracy Chevalier's book, tries to find out who the mysterious girl that modelled for Vermeer's work was. On the canvas,  she looks over her shoulder, a peculiar look, her mouth almost unnoticeably parted and opened, quietly sensual. In the shadow thrown by her neck, we see a single earring sparkle. Who is she, what did she feel, what relationship did she have with Vermeer?

And why did that girl look the way she looked, with that mix of exploratory curiosity and discrete intensity? And what could the matt-glossy pearl on her ear mean? Johannes Vermeer's life and work have not been explored that much, we don't know much about him. And then Tracy Chevalier answered in her way to all those questions. That eventually became a book, a huge bestseller in the US and Britain and beyond. Up to now over a million copies have been sold worldwide. And then there's the movie.

The girl is called Griet (Scarlett Johansson), a maid at the Vermeer family - we meet her as a pale girl who says little, but apparently lives on top of an inexhaustible source of sadness. The household is ironically ruled by Maria Thins (Judy Parfitt), Vermeer's tyrannical mother-in-law, who only insists on finances and her son-in-law continuously delivering jobs that they can sell. 

Catharina (Essie Davis), his wife, is little more than a baby factory with a production rate of about one piece a year, who has nothing to do except sit in self-loathing and misery and yelling at the staff. Vermeer himself (Colin Firth) is a shadow figure between those women.

Vermeer is the obsessively accurate observer of light and shades, the painter of mostly stunning scenes. From her side, Griet is clearly fascinated and intrigued by the work of her silent, somewhat eccentric and scatterbrained boss. For example, if Griet informs whether she should clean the windows of his studio, that is not just a practical question, because at the same time Griet notes that the light in the room will change. Her attention to such details brings again the interest of Vermeer.

When Griet consciously moves something at a certain moment, that was part of an arrangement that Vermeer was painting, we see how the master himself also finds that the composition of the painting (of the woman with the pitcher) without that seat becomes better. Radiographic research had previously revealed that Vermeer indeed had a seat in the painting. That is just one example of the fascinating way in which the book, and now the film, with such little 'historical' details, tells its own, though fictional but not, therefore, less credible story.

Griet appears to be good at mixing colours, the practical side of the painting and soon we see Vermeer's interest in her growing. When Van Ruijven (Tom Wilkinson), his patron, orders a portrait of Griet for his private collection, painting must happen in secret to avoid the raging jealousy of his wife.

Not that something happens between them - 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' is a film about what's not happening, what's not said and done. We see the painter and his model grow closer to each other, they clearly have the same artistic sensibilities, but as he is a painter and she's just a maid, it will never be possible, a fact that neither of them ever forget.

As the film progresses, we feel the tension between the two rise, with as the only peak a moment when he watches her as she takes off her head cap - her long red hair flows along her body and as a public, we feel as if he were staring at her naked. The scene has the same intense intimacy - Vermeer penetrates into her private space and if she objects, she does not say anything about it. A little later in the film, he puts a hole in her ear,  gently wiping the blood away. Whoever does not understand the symbolism should perhaps read a little Freud (who’d no doubt say :(*read in heavy German accent) it symbolises the penis) just kidding... 

'Girl With a Pearl Earring' is not at all about Vermeer - the painter is just a sideline, it's his model, the girl with the pearl herself, that is central. And together with her the other women of the family. Catharina is constantly being excluded by her husband from an important part of his life - his work. 

Not that he wants to hurt her, he just has the feeling that she does not understand what he's doing, so why should he involve her? When he meets Griet and feels that kind of understanding it is understandable that Catharina becomes jealous. Where does that maid get the privilege of communicating with her husband on such a level while she herself can not? No wonder the bitterness strikes. Give her another twenty years in that way, and she's as big a bitch as her mother.

In essence, the film is a women's portrait - a girl who has everything to become a painter but will be a maid until the end of her life. An affair that will never happen because the class system does not allow it. A wife who does not get enough love from her husband and a mother who has become bitter a long time ago, and now is as cool as a freezer. It's the kind of theme that high-end Hollywood dramas are crazy about, but that's not the case here. Director Peter Webber evades all melodramatic drama and chooses here for an oh so quiet, calm approach to his subject.

Dialogue is scarce in "Girl With a Pearl Earring" - where Webber can clear up his point in a visual way, he will not fail to do that without using dialogues. That kind of productions require a very specific acting talent, and Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth deliver all the necessary intensity and more. Just think of a certain scene in which Vermeer and Griet mix colours in the studio. Their bodies are so close together that they almost touch each other. Almost.

Their hands slide over the same material, they couldn't be more intimate. You get the feeling that if there were no conventions, no other people in the world they would like nothing more but to remove one another's clothes from their bodies. But no, nothing happens at all. That's just the tragedy of the movie. And that the actors can make it clear without saying a word is their great achievement.

Webber shows exceptional visual control over his film - each shot is clearly well thought out in composition and exposure. Every now and then, I even saw a little 'Barry Lyndon', in the sense that you can take almost any shot out of the movie and frame it. 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' begins from beginning to end feels like a living Vermeer painting which is an impressive sight.

Still, the fact remains that the movie appears to drag from one scene to another regularly - it only takes 100 minutes, but the pace is so static that you feel it a little in the end. Perhaps this is inevitable, given the kind of movie it is and the visual style that Webber is up to, but as a viewer, you have to learn to watch and breathe on the rhythm of the film. You have to find your way in, and that's not always easy. But good movies do not always have to be easy.

Catharina: Why don't you paint me? Vermeer: Because you don't understand. Catharina: And she does?

“How hard is it to paint a pretty girl?”

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Girl with a pearl earring, 2003

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Wuthering Heights (2011)

dir. & writ. Andrea Arnold / writ. Olivia Hetreed

period films marathon [8/23]

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Girl With a Pearl Earring by Olivia Hetreed (adapted from the novel by Tracy Chevalier)

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 drama film directed by Peter Webber. The screenplay was adapted by screenwriter Olivia Hetreed from the 1999 novel of the same name by Tracy Chevalier. Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he painted Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) in the city of Delft in Holland. Other cast members include Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, and Judy Parfitt.

The movie revolves around the mystery behind the masterpiece created by Johannes Vermeer which scholars estimate was completed in 1665. The painting is an example of a type of work called a tronie. Popular in the Dutch Golden Age, tronies were paintings that focused on the face of a subject with an added element of fantasy or an exaggeration of expression that differentiates them from portraits. Often Girl with a Pearl Earring is referred to as the "Mona Lisa of the North." This is partially because of the girl's curious expression, and in part because of the mystery surrounding the piece itself.

It is also interesting to know that the film incorporates seven of Vermeer's paintings into its story. The girl with a pearl earring is more than just a quaint little film about art but is concerned with themes of money, repression, obsession, power, and the human heart.

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Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

Director: Peter Webber

Writers: Tracy Chevalier (novel), Olivia Hetreed (screenplay)

Cinematography: Eduardo Serra

Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson

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Focus Features Acquires MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS Starring Lesley Manville

Focus Features Acquires MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS Starring Lesley Manville

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS out of the European Film Market this year. The film is directed by Anthony Fabian (Skin, Good Hope), written by Fabian, Carroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed, and based on the novella of the same name by Paul Gallico. Producers are Xavier Marchand, Guillaume Benski, and Fabian. MRS. HARRIS GOES TO…