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The Belly of an Architect (1987)

The Belly of an Architect (1987)

Drama

Art is the food for madness.

Release Date: 1987, September 23
Directors: Peter Greenaway
Countries: United Kingdom, Italy
Production: Callender Company, Mondial, Tangram Film, British Screen, Hemdale Group, SACIS, Film4 Productions
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Marino Masé, Lambert Wilson, Francesco Carnelutti, Chloe Webb, Marne Maitland, Stefania Casini, Alfredo Varelli, Vanni Corbellini, Sergio Fantoni, Geoffrey Copleston

Overview:

Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.

Keywords:

rome, italy failing marriage illness older man younger woman relationship architect architecture grotesque exhibition stomach