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In Reply to: Girl with the pearl Earring.... posted by patrickU on May 14, 2004 at 07:20:09:
I knew you could do it.
The greatest surprise was at the end when they showed the actual eponymous painting. How superior, even filmed, to all the movie's attempted imaging.
I bet Vermeer had a sense of humor. Why do artists always have to be so sombre in movies? Or why are people in period movies usually portrayed as so stuffy? Surely, Chaucer, Berlioz, and that fellow who wrote "The Decameron" debunked that long ago?
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But we all should be grateful to him - quite a work. I would love to see the TV maxi-series based on that work!Vermeer's life was not all that gloomy... he spent most of it making children, and painting a little in between.
Who has nothing in common with Tin own pestilance.....
Sorry Tin...
To reevaluate this film!
And yet you are right, the best moment almost religious is when they shoe " the real thing "....
They were very calvinistic at that period or austere as we say in France, look at Geneve and you still can ffeel it. That did not disturb me.
Steen, for example, show a pretty wild society!
As long man will be man and society society and double moral double moral.
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