Anthony Higgins
Mr. Neville
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The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British period comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film (following the feature-length mockumentary The Falls).
Nov 12, 1982 · The Draughtsman's Contract: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser. A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
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- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Peter Greenaway
- 1982-11-12
Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway's witty, stylized, erotic country house murder mystery catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema in...
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- Peter Greenaway
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- Anthony Higgins
Jun 17, 2010 · Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract, 1982.
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A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist, is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner, to produce a set of twelve drawings of her husband's estate, a contract which extends much further than either the purse or the sketchpad.
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An aristocratic wife commissions a draughtsman to sketch her husband’s property while he is away—in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor for each of the drawings. As the draughtsman becomes entrenched in the devious schemings, details emerge in his art that may reveal a murder.
