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Girl with a Pearl Earring

2003

In 17th-century Delft, a young peasant girl taken on as a maid in the household of the painter Vermeer becomes his quiet muse, an intimacy that stirs jealousy and scandal. A luminous, painterly period drama.

Why it’s here

A British film about Vermeer, Delft, and the social world of Dutch painting.

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