Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

A visual delight:

I just saw "Girl With a Pearl Earring" this afternoon. I was thoroughly entertained with the fictional story of behind Vermeer's painting of a young girl with a pear earring. Normally I am not really big on period pieces but I was completely engrossed through out the film. It makes up for the shoddy film "Carnage" I saw last weekend. "Girl With Pearl Earring" stars Scarlett Johansson (my favorite actress at the moment) as Griet, the object of Johanne Vermeer's (Colin Firth) painting. I haven't read the... more info

LESS THAN PICTURE PERFECT...:

Based upon a best selling book of the same name by Tracy Chevalier, I had high hopes for this film. Unfortunately, they were not fully realized. While the cinematography is exquisite, as every frame brings to mind a Vermeer painting or one by an old Dutch master, the film is static and becomes enervated, sinking into a torpor that not even its beauty can cure.

The story line seems fairly simple. A pretty and seemingly intelligent Dutch girl, Griet (Scarlett Johansson), daughter of an artisan with failing... more info

Superb:

This was one of the best movies that I've seen in years. A magnificent, sensuous, and yet amazingly subtle film.

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