Girl With A Pearl Earring
Directed
by: Wayne Kramer
Release Date: November 26, 2003 (ltd)
Rated: PG-13
Lions Gate Films
Set
in 17th century Holland Girl With A Pearl Earring tells
the imagined, intriguing and highly seductive story behind
one of Vermeer's greatest and most enigmatic paintings.
Griet
(Scarlett Johansson), a tilemaker's daughter, is forced by
tragedy to become a maid for the master painter (Colin Firth).
Fascinated by his craft, she soon shows an aptitude for helping
in his studio, where she finds herself drawn to the man and
his world of color and light. As she becomes part of his work,
their growing intimacy spreads disruption and jealousy within
his ordered household and beyond, fuelling a scandal which
threatens to ruin them all.
