Girl With a Pearl Earring

Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth star this drama based on the novel by Tracy Chevalier which looks at the process behind creating the famous portrait.

Griet (Scarlett Johansson) is a young woman who leaves her family home in the countryside to work as a servant for the Vermeer household in the burgh of Delft.

To begin with, she is very lowly in the servant ranks until she is given responsibility for cleaning the master of the house's painting quarters.

The unsociable Vermeer (Colin Firth) is taken with Griet's looks and over some time paints her portrait.

This upsets his pregnant and jealous wife Catharina (Essie Davis) and his benefactor, van Ruijven (Tom Wilkinson), who likes to decide what Vermeer should be painting.

Meanwhile, Griet is forming her own special relationship with Pieter (Cillian Murphy), a peasant boy her own age.