La Jeune Fille à la perle
According to Webber, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is "more than just a quaint little film about art" but is concerned with themes of money, sex, repression, obsession, power, and the human heart. Laura M. Sager Eidt in her book, "Writing and Filming the Painting: Ekphrasis in Literature and Film", asserts that the film deviates significantly from the source material and emphasises a "socio-political dimension that is subtler in the novel." "Girl with a Pearl Earring", Sager Eidt says, "shifts its focus from a young girl's evolving consciousness to the class and power relations in the story."