Girl With A Pearl Earring (DVD) (UK Import)

Directed by Peter Webber

Starring: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy, Essie Davis, Joanna Scanlan, Alakina Mann, Rollo Weeks
Contributors: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker, Olivia Hetreed, Eduardo Serra, Alexandre Desplat, Jan Vermeer
Studio: Pathe
Genre: Drama
Main Language: English
Region: Region 2
Release Date: 31 May 2004
Originally Issued: 2003
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Cert: (12) Suitable for 12 years and over.
Run Time: 99 minutes

Description

Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth star this drama based on the novel by Tracy Chevalier which looks at the process behind creating the famous portrait. Griet (Scarlett Johansson) is a young woman who leaves her family home in the countryside to work as a servant for the Vermeer household in the burgh of Delft. To begin with, she is very lowly in the servant ranks until she is given responsibility for cleaning the master of the house's painting quarters.

The unsociable Vermeer (Colin Firth) is taken with Griet's looks and over some time paints her portrait. This upsets his pregnant and jealous wife Catharina (Essie Davis) and his benefactor, van Ruijven (Tom Wilkinson), who likes to decide what Vermeer should be painting. Meanwhile, Griet is forming her own special relationship with Pieter (Cillian Murphy), a peasant boy her own age.

Special Features

• Interactive Menus
• Enhanced WS tv
• Bonus Footage
• Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Commentary: Director and Writer
• Making Of Documentary
• Other Documentary: Anatomy of a Scene