Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

beautiful film. convincing performances. veil of mystery. high delicacy of portraits. Scarlett Johansson as inspired choice for a role who seduce. Colin Firth as a credible Vermeer. the atmosphere who reminds pages and paintings and drawings.the tension, the joy to discover details, the young Griet in fight with suspicions and expectations and responsibilities are pieces who are virtues for a splendid fresco of a Dutch story from the XVII century. . but something seems missing. Scarlett Johansson remains a shadow in many scenes. the atmosphere is the perfect cover for a splendid story about gestures, choices , emotions.

Scarlett Johansson is brilliant and so are all the other actors. The movie was done so well, I do hope it got awarded for almost everything... I loved it. The first time I saw Scarlett was in Ghost World. She had a small part but she really came on as a very smart person, which I totally think she is. Despite what others say, she has a beautiful face and her lips and innocence are to die for... she is a brilliant actress, I must say it again. She doesn't need makeup, yet when she does wear it she is va va voom beautiufl. Others are just jealous of her. She seems to have it all. Do watch this movie on demand, it was one of the top movies most viewed on comcast.

What really impressed me about this film is a hidden eroticism in it. At that time Holland it was unthinkable of what today Holland has plenty: legal pornography and prostitution. I always had a feeling that such painting with a hidden dose of eroticism is a precurse to what will come much later, sexual revolution and total openness inside human sexuality. I derive it from the heretical sect of the Adamites, who were by my opinion sexual revolution before sexual revolution.Film captures that well or at least gives us a small nudge into the whole thing. Cinematography and costimography are so excellent, true holiday for the eyes. I wish they will make more films of this kind.

Griet (Scarlett Johansson) is a peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth). She becomes his talented assistant, and the model for one of his most famous works. Also starring such greats actors as Tom Wilkinson and Cillian Murphy.This movie is based on a fictional story derived from the Dutch masterpiece painting called Girl with a Pearl Earring. Like the painting, this is really pretty. The set and the costumes are all beautifully created reminiscent of the paintings. Every chance he gets, director Peter Webber frames the movie as a painting. I see the idea behind the style, but inevitably it restraints the picture from anything more than 2 dimensional portraits.Scarlett's reserved performance siphons most of the passion from this film. It's obvious they're trying to allude to an overall sense of restricted sexuality. But it just takes too long to get the tension going. A quicker faster emotional speed is required for the first half.