Griet works diligently and almost wordlessly in the lowest position of a harsh hierarchy. On the way there, she stops momentarily at a crossroads. Griet is sent to Delft to work as a maid in the household of famed painter Johannes Vermeer and his wife, Catharina. Her father, a Delftware painter, has recently gone blind, rendering him unable to work and leaving his family in a precarious financial situation. Griet is a shy girl living in the Dutch Republic in 1665.
The film was subsequently nominated for ten British Academy Film Awards, three Academy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. It garnered a mostly positive critical reception, with critics generally applauding the film's visuals and performances while questioning elements of its story. Released on 12 December 2003 in North America and on 16 January 2004 in the United Kingdom, Girl with a Pearl Earring earned a worldwide gross of $31.4 million. Cinematographer Eduardo Serra used distinctive lighting and colour schemes similar to Vermeer's paintings. In a 2003 interview with IGN, he said, "What I was scared of is ending up with something that was like Masterpiece Theatre, very polite Sunday evening BBC kind of thing, and I determined to make something quite different from that.". In his feature film debut, Webber sought to avoid employing traditional characteristics of the period film drama. Hudson withdrew shortly before filming began, however, and the film was placed in hiatus until the hire of Webber, who re-initiated the casting process. Initially, the production was to feature Kate Hudson as Griet with Mike Newell directing. Hetreed read the novel before its publication, and her husband's production company convinced Chevalier to sell the film rights. Other cast members include Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, Essie Davis, and Judy Parfitt. Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he painted Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) in the city of Delft in Holland.
Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 drama film directed by Peter Webber from a screenplay by Olivia Hetreed, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Tracy Chevalier.
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