Art is the food for madness.
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.
Directed byPeter Greenaway
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- September 23, 1987
- Budget
- $2,000,000
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Cast & crew
Brian Dennehy
Stourley Kracklite
Chloe Webb
Louisa Kracklite
Lambert Wilson
Caspasian Speckler
Sergio Fantoni
Io Speckler
Stefania Casini
Flavia Speckler
Vanni Corbellini
Frederico
Alfredo Varelli
Julio
Geoffrey Copleston
Caspetti
Francesco Carnelutti
Pastarri
Marino Masé
Trettorio
- Directed by
- Peter Greenaway
- Written by
- Peter Greenaway
- Produced by
- Walter DonohueColin Callender
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