The Belly of an Architect
Greenaway constructs a poetic visual narrative of Rome contrasting with the physical decay of the creative individual.
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American architect Stourley Kracklite arrives in Italy to superve an exhibition for a French architect, Boullée. Over nine months he becomes obsessed with his belly, suffers stomach pains, loses his wife, exhibition, his unborn child and his own life. Through metaphors of pregnancy and architecture, Greenaway constructs a poetic visual narrative of Rome that contrasts with the physical and mental decay of the creative individual.
| Director | Peter Greenaway |
| Cast | Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lamber Wilson, Sergio Fantoni |
| Country | UK |
| Year | 1987 |
| Running time | 118min |
| Certificate | 15 |
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