"Girl With a Pearl Earring" combines the crafts of production design, cinematography and musical score sublimely. Director Peter Webber stands back, handling his cast in restraining fashion. Female lead, played by Scarlett Johansson on the verge to have her breakthrough with "Lost in Translation", releasing at international film festivals at the same time, gives the character of Griet undermined cold appearance. Nevertheless her potential is not fully explored in an adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's equally named novel on the evolutionary creation of the painting by Johannes Vermeer in 1665. Peter Webber delivers hardly the overall punchline "You've seen inside me", when Scarlett Johansson needed to be pushed out of the comfort zone of the ghostly dragging peasant girl, cleaning the artist's household. British actor Colin Firth, given the part of Vermeer, almost in the same restrained fashion. The characters of Griet and Vermeer share one tender moment, when the girl's ear needs to be pierced in order to hang the ear ring at her earlobe. The actors' hands meet for brief moment of truth, which saves the otherwise conventionally playing interpretation of historical period piece. Additional supporting cast members as Tom Wilkinson and Cillian Murphy are also in the film, but share the same fate of not getting intrigued into their characters enough in order to elevate the picture beyond mediocrity. "Girl With A Pearl Earring" can be enjoyed for its splendor in audio-visual decor, mainly through the expertise of a flawless collaboration between Cinematographer Eduardo Serra and Ben Van Os and round finish of Alexandre Desplat's minimalist piano score. For Director Peter Webber it has been a craftsman exercise towards cinema, from which never really departed to this day.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend

Girl With a Pearl Earring is all textures, colors, light, sound, and Charlott's face. Despite the awesome sensory smorgasbord and a palate that would make Vermeer proud nothing stands out to anywhere near the degree of Charlott's face.The greatest acting performance of all time measured by what she had to upstage.See my page at https://plus.google.com/107486172052080671382 for my review of this and much, much more. All it requires is suspension of disbelief and I have made that as easy as it could possibly be. Well it seems that I must add on to this so I will note the difficulty that I am having with my keyboard getting it to capitalize anything on the left side.

There are some movies that can be called "my movies" from the first minutes." The girl with a pearl earring" is one of them for me. This movie is rather unusual, not all people will estimate it. The picture doesn't have fascinating plot or prompt development of actions. It is far from a mad rhythm of modern life. That's why it's so charming.The acting is impressing. It is very important that actors are deprived of a present raid for such films. Colin Firth ideally got used to a role of the mysterious artist, a creative person. He is shown acute, thoughtful, impulsive and imperious.Scarlet Johansson showed us the pensive young girl masterly. Her heroine is naive a little , but she has fine sense of beauty.It is one of the few movies which I know where love is expressed by views and gestures. Jan Vermeer and Griet's relations are pure and touching, and we can understand their feelings to each other without words. There are pretty number of dialogs in the film, but the essence of the movie is transferred precisely and beautifully. All picture "is surprisingly silent" and it creates its atmosphere. I think, this "silence" , the muffled colors and bright white light so helped to recreate measured life of medieval Holland from which it is impossible to take away a look.We see green channels and dirty streets against contrast: picturesque landscapes, quiet avenues, pure sheets in the cozy small court yard. The film is very atmospheric, you derive aesthetic pleasure from viewing. Moreover, the requisite is picked up with a big accuracy and attention.There is a separate wish to allocate Alexander Depl's music, without it "The girl with a pearl earring" would lose a half of the charm. It made strong impression on me, the movie ended, but the desire to listen to this wonderful music again and again remained.It is natural to become interested in Jan Vermeer's creativity after the movie. Unambiguously I recommend "The girl with a pearl earring " for viewing.

Have you ever been to an art gallery? Do you remember how it is to go along wide halls and to look at works of art from different parts of the world. So, some years ago my relatives and I have visited the Tretyakov State Gallery. I walked through the spacious halls and pictures flashed one after the other. I can't turn my mind to the exact one. I was a child and it was boring for me to spend my free time like this. But in spite of it some pictures were kept in my mind. And last week my teacher advised me to watch the film "Girl with a Pearl Earring". As for me I don't like watching films at all. In my opinion it is not the best way to spend free time. But the name of this film was familiar to me and I decided to watch. At first I thought it would be something similar to Hollywood films. But it wasn't. This film tells us a beautiful story about the history of creation of the picture "Girl with a Pearl Earring". There are very few episodes with long pretentious speeches. The main actors use few words; they show feelings of their characters through movements and emotions. More than that I can say that the atmosphere of the city and of the house where the actions take place is realistically shown. So, it was really surprising for me to find one of the pictures which I saw in my childhood in this film. I didn't expect this film to be interesting for me. I thought: "It is just to see and forgive, like the most films." But after reviewing I changed my opinion. That's why, if you are tired from typical films with predictable ends, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" will be just a breath of fresh air.