A film to either love or loathe. Exquisitely composed film about obsession reaffirms director Peter Greenaway's reputation as a meticulous visual artist. Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy), a corpulent Chicago architect of some renown, travels to Rome with his considerably younger wife
Louisa (Chloe Webb) to oversee an exhibition commemorating the work of Etienne Louis Boullee, a little-known but visionary 18th-century French architect. A handsome young Italian architect, Caspasian Speckler (Lambert Wilson), is in charge of the project's finances, and he covets both Kracklite's
control of the exhibition and his wife. Kracklite's world begins to crumble as he become...
Released:
1987
Rated:
NR
Length:
108 mins