Day three at the 2014 Cannes film festival, and Mike Leigh and Timothy Spall have painted a picture of a grunting, gobbing JMW Turner in a biopic of the artist that Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard and Peter Bradshaw find sublime. Plus, Abderrahmane Sissako is back in Cannes with Timbuktu, a film that challenges the preposterousness of religious fundamentalism
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The Guardian Film Show at Cannes 2014 - Mr Turner: the gob and the glory of Mike Leigh's masterpiece
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