Sentences with phrase «rigid social code»

«Girl With a Pearl Earring» is Peter Webber's sensuous meditation on artistic inspiration, starring Scarlett Johansson in the second of her great performances this year, as a poor girl who is employed as a maid in the home of the Dutch master Vermeer (Peter Firth) and not only inspires a famous painting but also makes an unmistakable artistic and emotional connection with him — which the rigid social code of the time prevents them from acknowledging.