A Zed & Two Noughts
1990
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- Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports 85% approval of The Belly of an Architect based on 13 reviews, though with an average rating of 6.58/10.
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Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy), a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa (Chloe Webb), to oversee an architectural homage to a ...
The Belly of an Architect is a 1987 drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, featuring original music by Glenn Branca and Wim Mertens. Starring Brian Dennehy and Chloe Webb, it was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
The 80s were the times of the fiction films and 'the Belly of an Architect' is one of his best and most known. This is the story of an American architect coming to the eternal city to prepare an exhibition dedicated to the revolutionary 18th century architect Etienne Louis Boulee.
The Belly of an Architect is less a movie than a filmed script--it lacks the sense of surprise and discovery of a world freshly unfolding before the camera that makes the cinema come alive--but it remains an intelligent, provocative effort.
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Oct 16, 1987 · The Belly of an Architect: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson, Sergio Fantoni. An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.
Sep 10, 2012 · When middle-aged American architect Stourley Kracklite (Dennehy) visits Rome to oversee an exhibition in tribute to an 18th century predecessor, Boullée, his grand ambitions founder in a morass...
