This fictitious backstory to the creation of Vermeer's best-known painting looks so impressive, and so precisely mimics the colours the 17th-century Dutchman used, it's a while before you realise ...

You have to love her whether you want to or not.' 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' was painted by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in ...

If all of the above makes Girl with a Pearl Earring sound unappealing, then it shouldn't. Like Lost in Translation, the other film currently featuring the prodigious Scarlett Johansson ...