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In ‘Earring,’ Griet (Johansson), still a teenager, must leave her Protestant home to enter Vermeer’s tumultuous, Catholic household in Delft, Holland when her father, a tile painter, becomes blind. Stern women rule the household. Vermeer’s pennypinching mother-in-law, Maria (Judy Parfitt), keeps a close eye on her emotional daughter Catharina (Essie Davis) who is very often pregnant with another child to feed, her mischievous granddaughter and a pair of gossipy female servants.
On the floor above in his studio, Vermeer labors painstakingly but in peace on his paintings. He is not prolific, taking months to complete a
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