Making of a Movie - Girl with a Pearl Earing (Peter Webber)

[CON LETRA] Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 drama film directed by Peter Webber. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works. The film is named after a painting of the same name by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The film uses a bright color scheme as in Vermeer's paintings.

Griet (Scarlett Johansson) is a shy girl living in the Dutch Republic in the 1660s. Her father, a Delftware painter, has recently gone blind, rendering him unable to work and putting his family in dire straits. Consequently, Griet is sent to work as a maid in the unhappy household of the painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth).

Griet works hard, almost wordlessly, in the lowest position in a harsh hierarchy, where even one of the Vermeer's children treat her spitefully. On a routine shopping trip outside the house, a butcher's son, Pieter (Cillian Murphy), is quickly taken with Griet, though she is slow to return his affections.