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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 .
- 1987
- Colin Callender, Walter Donohue
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.
- Peter Greenaway
- 2 min
The Belly of an Architect ★★★½ 1991 (R)A thespian feast for the larger-than-life Dennehy as blustering American architect whose personal life and health both crumble as he obsesssively readies an exhibition in Rome. A multi-tiered, carefully composed tragicomedy from the ideosyncratic filmmaker Greenaway, probably his most accessible ...
The Belly of An Architect is a pretty picture of a movie; a real pretty picture. But no level of beauty can mask the fact that it features some of the worst flirting and faffing in the history of ...
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- Peter Greenaway
- R
- Brian Dennehy
Oct 1, 1987 · ''The Belly of an Architect'' will be shown tonight at 6:15 and Saturday at 3 as part of the New York Film Festival. The Inner Man THE BELLY OF AN ARCHITECT, directed and written by Peter ...
- Peter Greenaway
The suspicious architect begins to draw parallels between his life and that of Augustus, whose wife fed him poisoned figs. Searching for meaning as he faces his mortality, Kracklite wanders through Rome on a search for meaning.Greenaway’s decision to cast Dennehy (his biggest on-screen role to date was the sadistic sheriff in First Blood ...
He defines three distinct periods within which the body changes its relationship to the buildings, coincidentally, three periods that are also present in The Belly of an Architect. His theory starts with the notion that the building is a body. In classical architecture the Vitruvian Man dictated the appropriate proportions for building.
