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The Baby of Mâcon is a 1993 historical drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, and starring Ralph Fiennes, Julia Ormond and Philip Stone, in his final film appearance.
Sep 17, 1993 · The Baby of Mâcon: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Julia Ormond, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Stone, Jonathan Lacey. Plagued with infertility, the inhabitants of Mâcon are naturally involved in the spectacle that is a masque about the miracle child born to a virgin mother.
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- Drama, History
- Peter Greenaway
- 1993-09-17
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An old woman gives birth to a baby, viewed by onlookers of what is apparently a theater. No one can believe that an ugly old woman could be the mother of such a beautiful child. A young woman (who turns out to be the old woman's daughter) claims to be the baby's mother.
When a beautiful male child is born in a medieval village savaged by pestilence and a plague of infertility, it is hailed as a fertility icon. However, the child’s ambitious 17-year old sister proclaims herself the mother, and she exploits the child’s powers, pitting herself against the Church.
Peter Greenaway’s The Baby of Mâcon is a damning, unflinching indictment of humanity. Made in the style of a stage play in mid-17th century France in the court of Cosimo Medici; the film tells the story of a baby born of an old, hideous and plague-ridden woman in the barren village of Mâcon.
One of Peter Greenaway’s most controversial masterworks (think of it as his Salò!), The Baby of Mâcon has lost none of its shocking power. A damning indictment of humanity that exposes the dangers of religion, corruption, and groupthink through lavish and deeply perverse metatheatrical set pieces.
