Brush with Fate
6.4 /10 1 Votes
4.4/5 Amazon Genre Drama Duration Language English | 6.2/10 IMDb 50% Rotten Tomatoes Director Brent Shields Initial DVD release October 21, 2003 Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date February 2, 2003 (2003-02-02) Writer Susan Vreeland (novel), Richard Russo (teleplay) Adapted from Madchen In Hyazinthblau / Girl in Hyacinth Blue Cast Ellen Burstyn (Rika), Glenn Close (Cornelia Engelbrecht), Thomas Gibson (Richard), Phyllida Law (Maria), Kelly Macdonald (Aletta Pieters), Patrick Bergin (Headmaster)Similar movies Ellen Burstyn appears in Brush With Fate and The Patron Saint of Liars Tagline A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brush with Fate was a made-for-TV film debuted on February 2, 2003, on CBS. It followed the life of an imaginary painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer as it passes through the hands of various people. The film was based on Girl In Hyacinth Blue, a novel by author Susan Vreeland, and starred Glenn Close and Ellen Burstyn. The imaginary painting 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue', the principal object in this film, is painted exactly in Vermeer's painting technique by the American master painter Jonathan Janson, author and webmaster of the world-known website about the life and work of Johannes Vermeer "Essential Vermeer".
Contents
Plot
Richard is a new art teacher at a high school. Cornelia Englebrecht (played by Glenn Close) is a history teacher who invites Richard to see a painting of a young girl at a table, which she believes to be a genuine Vermeer, where she tells him stories, which are portrayed as flashbacks about the people who owned the painting in the past. All of the stories take place in the Netherlands, and the flashbacks happen mostly before the one preceding it. The first story, from the late 1800s, involved a romance and had flashbacks within flashbacks. Another story took place in the early 1700s when a baby was abandoned during a flood after a dike break. The painting accompanied the baby and was intended to be sold for the baby's expenses.
In the next story, a man left a university to take a job working with the machinery used for the dikes. He got interested in a servant girl who was punished by being put in stocks. It is revealed in this story where the baby came from.
The next story was very brief, and in it, a woman, who was unsuccessful in bidding for the painting at an auction, seemed to know more about the painting than the auctioneer. The next story revealed how Vermeer came to paint the girl's picture. Finally, Cornelia tells us how she came in possession of the painting, and it is perhaps the most interesting story of them all
Tagline: A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.
Cast
References
Brush with Fate WikipediaBrush with Fate Rotten TomatoesBrush with Fate Amazon.comBrush with Fate IMDb Brush with Fate themoviedb.org