The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Country: GB/IT
Technical: col 118m
Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson
Synopsis:
An American architect on his way to Rome for a celebration of the work of his predecessor, Boullée, plants a new life in his wife's belly just as a cancer grows towards death in his own.
Review:
The Greenaway oeuvre begins to affirm its constituent parts with this third feature: pointed allusion to artistic precedents, the creator as prey to intellectual conspiracy, a preoccupation with form, particularly symmetry, and a penchant for tortuous dialogue. Dennehy redeems the film from pretentious irrelevance and Rome never looked so good on film.
Country: GB/IT
Technical: col 118m
Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson
Synopsis:
An American architect on his way to Rome for a celebration of the work of his predecessor, Boullée, plants a new life in his wife's belly just as a cancer grows towards death in his own.
Review:
The Greenaway oeuvre begins to affirm its constituent parts with this third feature: pointed allusion to artistic precedents, the creator as prey to intellectual conspiracy, a preoccupation with form, particularly symmetry, and a penchant for tortuous dialogue. Dennehy redeems the film from pretentious irrelevance and Rome never looked so good on film.
Country: GB/IT
Technical: col 118m
Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson
Synopsis:
An American architect on his way to Rome for a celebration of the work of his predecessor, Boullée, plants a new life in his wife's belly just as a cancer grows towards death in his own.
Review:
The Greenaway oeuvre begins to affirm its constituent parts with this third feature: pointed allusion to artistic precedents, the creator as prey to intellectual conspiracy, a preoccupation with form, particularly symmetry, and a penchant for tortuous dialogue. Dennehy redeems the film from pretentious irrelevance and Rome never looked so good on film.