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The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Directed by Peter Greenaway
“Art is the food for madness.”
Drama · 1h 58m
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.
Cast
Brian Dennehy
Stourley Kracklite
Chloe Webb
Louisa Kracklite
Lambert Wilson
Caspasian Speckler
Sergio Fantoni
Io Speckler
Stefania Casini
Flavia Speckler
Vanni Corbellini
Frederico
Alfredo Varelli
Julio
Geoffrey Copleston
Caspetti
Francesco Carnelutti
Pastarri
Marino Masé
Trettorio
Marne Maitland
Battistino
Crew
- Director
- Peter Greenaway
- Writer
- Peter Greenaway
- Director of Photography
- Sacha Vierny
- Original Music Composer
- Wim Mertens
- Editor
- John Wilson
- Producer
- Walter Donohue, Colin Callender
Details
- Release date
- 1987-09-23
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Italian, English
- Countries
- Italy, United Kingdom
- Production
- Callender Company, Mondial, Tangram Film, British Screen, Hemdale Group, SACIS, Film Four International
- Budget
- $2,000,000