GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

Sunday, July 1st, 6:45pm
Tuesday, July 24th, 8:30pm
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Peter Webber
Rated: PG
Released: 2003
Country: GB

Hailed as a masterpiece of restrained erotic tension, 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' is a beautiful tale of forbidden love and tormented talent. Set in cloistered 17th century Holland, Scarlett Johansson is Griet, an innocent young woman sent to work in the household of the mysterious painter, Dutch Master, Johannes Vermeer.Despite his wife's protestations about their new maid, Vermeer begins to see intelligence and understanding flickering in her eyes and slowly lets her in to his private world of oils, canvasses and concentration.But the ramifications of this tender and intimate bond will be explosive when Vermeer asks his young muse to secretly pose for his latest painting.