The surface of ''Girl'' is rich with the busy details of life in 1665 Delft, where Vermeer (Colin Firth) struggles to maintain patronage for his art while overseeing a household of wife, mother-in-law, and ever more children (11 survived), and where the 16-year-old Griet toils in anonymous servitude.
''Girl'' is so static at times that it threatens to turn into a coffee-table book: Eduardo Serra's precise, sensuous photography mimics the angles and light of the Dutch Golden Age, while Alexandre Desplat's score burbles with elegant baroque minimalism.
There are moments in ''Girl With a PearlEarring'' when Griet is still, and both the painter and we are suddenly transfixed by the art hidden there.
The Girl with a PearlEarring (Dutch:Het meisje met de parel) is one of Dutch painterJohannes Vermeer's masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearlearring for a focal point.
Vermeer's painting inspired a novelGirl with a PearlEarring by Tracy Chevalier, which imagines the circumstances under which the painting came to be created.
Girl with a PearlEarring appears about halfway through the second stage of Blood Omen 2 on the wall of an inn.
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