The Belly of an Architect

The Belly of an Architect (The Belly of an Architect ) is a film by director Peter Greenaway in 1987, who also wrote the screenplay.

Action

The film is about the physical and social ruin of the architect Stourley cracking Lite. This is to conceive an exhibition in Rome for the classicist architect Étienne -Louis Boullée, with the cracking Lite deals for years and whose " Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton" is a central motif of the film.

In Italy, cracking Lite is increasingly suffering from inexplicable stomach pains that herald a fatal stomach cancer. In him cracking Lite sees an analogy to death Boullée and other historical personalities, where he now also his wife Louisa suspected of poisoning. It is becoming increasingly self-centered, while Louisa is cheating on him with his Italian colleagues Caspasian Speckler who wants to gain the control over the exhibition. This is achieved Speckler finally by the increasing psychological stress cracking Lites, as his Italian colleagues have increasingly doubts about its suitability and deprive him of the responsibility for the project. In addition Stourley is left by his wife Louisa, who is pregnant by him and decided shortly before the birth of her Italian lover.

At the opening of the exhibition cracking Lites presence is only desirable for the publicity. However, since he secretly sneaks into the event, this part of his very pregnant wife is left. She finally collapses while Stourley crashes backwards out of a window.

Criticism

  • Filmdienst: The story is merely a pretext for a bizarre intellectual guessing game about architecture, numbers and word games to time and age. The result is a witty, impressively staged travel in aesthetic systems of cultural history and myths of humanity.

Awards

  • The film was nominated in 1987 for the Golden Palm in Cannes
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