The Belly of an Architect

★★★★★

“Art is the food for madness.”

1987 · 1 h 59 min

Directed by Peter Greenaway

Drama

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Cast

Brian Dennehy

Credits

Written by: Peter Greenaway

Plot

An American architect in Rome.

Sinekatalog’s take

Peter Greenaway's Roman drama follows an American architect obsessed with an exhibition and his own failing body. Cool, composed and darkly witty, with Brian Dennehy superb, it is a stately, bleakly funny study of mortality.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (6,748 votes)
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