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The Belly of an Architect
UNITED KINGDOM · 1987

The Belly of an Architect

Peter Greenaway
obsession infidelity architecture mortality pregnancy
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Synopsis

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 recurr

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