Someone less enamoured of Girl With A Pearl Earring than we has commented that the film is so slow it's sort of like watching paint dry.
Actually, it's exactly like watching paint dry. That would be the point. Girl With A Pearl Earring concerns the painter Vermeer and his complicated relationship with a young maid in his household. The year is 1665, the setting is the Dutch city of Delft and the goings-on are as 1665-ish as you can imagine -- slow, detailed, labour-intensive, no-mod-cons. The stillness of the film (not the oxymoron it seems) is one of its many marvels.
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