Girl With The Pearl Earring (2003)

Posted May 16, 2006

Who’s in it

Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy

Should you see this movie?

This one is pretty interesting, but not one I would probably watch again. It got some media attention even though it was a low budget film, because of the story. Johansson’s breakout role as a peasant woman who works in home of a well to do woman and her artist husband. For one of his final paintings he choses to paint Scarlett, and messes up so many lives because of the class system at this period in the world. The wife in the movie is a psycho, that is what I remember the most, a true nightmare of a wife. But, it is interesting if you can rent it free from the library, well paced and engaging story.