A teacher (Glenn Close) recounts to a new colleague (Thomas Gibson) the 300-year history of a painting she claims is a lost work by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. In flashbacks, the masterpiece changes hands among a chain of owners, including a 19th-century sea merchant (Jan DeCleir); a potato farmer's wife (Thekla Reuten); a socialite (Ellen Burstyn) in the early 1700s; and and a Jewish family during the German occupation.... (Full plot summary below)
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A teacher (Glenn Close) recounts to a new colleague (Thomas Gibson) the 300-year history of a painting she claims is a lost work by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. In flashbacks, the masterpiece changes hands among a chain of owners, including a 19th-century sea merchant (Jan DeCleir); a potato farmer's wife (Thekla Reuten); a socialite (Ellen Burstyn) in the early 1700s; and and a Jewish family during the German occupation.
Leave your thoughts about Brush with Fate.
| User ReviewJenn AThis movie is fantastic. It's so beautifully written. |
| User ReviewCesca CI love these types of stories where a token or treasure spans thru era hand to hand |
| User ReviewHolly FI don't know why i thought a film about a Vermeer Painting would be any good but i checked it out anyways! I'll be honest, i mainly watched this for Thomas Gibson but when i found out whilst watching that his total part was only 5 minutes, i lost interest!! Its an okish drama but lacked any emotion to portray to audiences. April 7, 2010 |
| User Reviewmonsieur rI don't know why i thought a film about a Vermeer Painting would be any good but i checked it out anyways! I'll be honest, i mainly watched this for Thomas Gibson but when i found out whilst watching that his total part was only 5 minutes, i lost interest!! Its an okish drama but lacked any emotion to portray to audiences. |
| User ReviewJessica BIt hard to write a good book which centers on a object, not a person. It is just about impossible to produce a good movie which centers on an object. A painting, no matter how lovely, cannot carry a movie. In Brush with Fate, the viewer passes through so many stories and time periods, it becomes difficult to know when the movie is moving forward in time and when it is moving backwards. It is even harder to connect with the characters--there's just not enough time to develop relationships or setting. Perhaps because of this, some of the period scenes appeared too sensationalist. Some of these problems could have been smoothed over with better direction and writing, but ultimately a painting is not as interesting to a moviegoer as another person. |
