MR TURNER premieres at 2014 Cannes Film Festival

Mike Leigh’s biopic of J.M.W. Turner, starring Timothy Spall as the British painter, will premiere at Cannes Film Festival this week.

UA talent includes Karina Fernandez, Elizabeth Berrington and Martin Savage, who plays Benjamin Haydon. The production is designed by Suzie Davies.

MR TURNER focuses on the personal relationships and creative output of the artist’s later years, before his death in 1851.