
An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibition for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures. Through the course of 9 months he becomes obsessed with his belly, suffers severe stomach pains, loses his wife, exhibition, his unborn child and finally his own life.... (Full plot summary below)
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An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibition for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures. Through the course of 9 months he becomes obsessed with his belly, suffers severe stomach pains, loses his wife, exhibition, his unborn child and finally his own life.
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| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisThere's a good deal here to relish, even if the piece as a whole eventually descends into the same hermetic serialism of motifs that has consumed most of Greenaway's pictures. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesDennehy achieves Brando-esque emotional power. |
| Filmcritic.comJake EukerThe most telling parallel is that between Kracklite, with his perpetual stomach upset, and director Greenaway: Both are pretentious gasbags. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatBrian Dennehy gives a towering performance as a middle-aged architect in Rome on a special project that becomes an obsession. |
| User ReviewChrista MI just love Peter Greenaways movies! They are quite bizarre, with a wonderful moral twist in the end of them... |
| User ReviewGreg HIn my opinion, this is Peter Greenaway's best and qualifies as one of my all-time favorite films! Wim Mertens' soundtrack is aurally gorgeous. |
| User ReviewTim WGreenaway i Italien tillsammans med Brian Dennehy = kärlek |
| User ReviewDeborah PI was sick in bed in Edimburgh and this movie was on air, this is how I found about Greenaway's works for the first time and became hypnotized since |
| User ReviewTristan GAnother perfect symbiosis of literary and visual art by the master of the medium Peter Greenaway. He certainly belongs in that top shelf with Felini, Lynch, Bergman and Eisenstein. |
| User ReviewPatric SPeter Greenaway is my favourite director by far |