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    The Draughtsman's Contract

    R1982 · Comedy drama · 1h 43m

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  1. 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 ).

  2. 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
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  4. Jul 30, 2003 · In a provincial country house, renowned draughtsman Mr Neville (Anthony Higgins) is contracted to draw 12 pictures of the property by Mrs Herbert (Janet Suzman), the wife of the cantankerous...

  5. The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British period comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film. Originally produced for Channel 4, the film is a form of murder mystery, set in rural Wiltshire, England in 1694.

  6. An aristocratic wife (Janet Suzman) commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) to sketch her husband's property while he is away--in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one...

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    • Peter Greenaway
    • R
    • Anthony Higgins
  7. Dec 6, 2022 · Watch and discover. Features and reviews. Papers, plans, diagrams: the making of The Draughtsman’s Contract. Documents held in the BFI National Archive offer revealing glimpses into how Peter Greenaway’s period mystery The Draughtsman’s Contract took shape, from Greenaway’s first application for funding to its innovative poster design.

  8. Nov 12, 2022 · How The Draughtsman’s Contract set the blueprint for the modern period piece. With its acerbic script and anachronistic flourishes, Peter Greenaway’s 1982 film is as fresh and funny as ever. F rom The Favourite to Dickinson, anachronism has become a popular trope of the post-millennium period piece, where 18th-century Queen’s parties are ...

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