Cannes: 'Mr. Turner' Star Timothy Spall Gives the Press a Big 'Harrumph!' — hollywoodreporter.com

CANNES – Grunts, snorts, groans and harrumphs could be heard in the wake of Thursday’s first press screening of Mike Leigh’s new feature, the competition entry Mr. Turner, starring Timothy Spall. But they weren’t snorts of derision. In fact, when the British director’s long-gestating dramatization of the life and work of British painter J.M.W. Turner concluded, it was greeted with a round of applause.

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