The Belly of an Architect
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- Runtime
- 118 mins
Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.
Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.
Cast
- Brian Dennehy
- Chloe Webb
- Lambert Wilson
- Sergio Fantoni
- Stefania Casini
- Vanni Corbellini
- Alfredo Varelli
- Geoffrey Copleston
- Francesco Carnelutti
- Marino Masé
- Marne Maitland
Director
- Peter Greenaway
Producers
- Walter Donohue
- Colin Callender
