Peter Greenaway | The Draughtsman’s Contract
Film Notes
Original Title: id.
Country, year: Regno Unito, 1982
Language: inglese
Duration: 104′
Color: colore
Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Dave Hill, Anne Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, The Michael Nyman Band
Screenplay: Peter Greenaway
Photography: Curtis Clark
Film editing: John Wilson
Music: Michael Nyman
Production: British Film Institute, Channel Four
Premiere: VERSIONE RESTAURATA
Screening info
Location: Cinema Centrale | Date: 02/10/2022 Time 21.00
Lungometraggio | –
Synopsis
40th anniversary 4K remaster
In an apparently idyllic 17th century Wiltshire, an ambitious draughtsman is commissioned by the wife of an aristocrat to produce twelve drawings of her husband’s estate and negotiates terms to include sexual favours from his employer. But when a corpse is dragged from the moat, the draughtsman’s drawings may reveal more than he realised.
This witty, stylised and erotic country-house murder mystery established Peter Greenaway as a director of international status. Extravagant costumes, a twisting plot, elegantly barbed dialogue and a mesmerising score by Michael Nyman make the film a treat for ear, eye and mind.
Before the movie
“Dante Alighieri Cinema Award” to Peter Greenaway
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