Movie: Girl With a Pearl Earring

[Mike Dodson]

Tom,

I haven't read the book yet, thought I plan to, but everything you just described was carried out in this movie. There was a lot of "tension" between the two partricularly after he discovered her eye for art, which came quite natural to her seeing that her father was an artist also, but I don't recall there ever being any physical contact between the two, other than the scene where he pierces her ear.

I would recommend you seeing the movie Tom just for the visual aspect of the movie. His studio and the window in his studio, as we see in so many of Vermeer's paintings, seemed to be an exact replica. The costumes and lighting were simply breath-taking.

I also read that the paintings shown throughout the movie were actually reproductions with the exception of "the painting" which was shown at the end of the movie, this was the original.

[Michele Rushworth]

Having read the book and then seeing the movie, I would recommend doing both. When the movie comes out on video I'll see it again.

I didn't feel the relationship between Vermeer and his subject was in any way made more "overt" in the movie and I thought it was in fact very tastefully handled. If anything Vermeer has a protective attitude toward her as if to say that , because she is part of his art, she is above all that.

Being artists I think all of us on the Forum will appreciate the visuals in the movie. I'd rate it