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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
UNITED KINGDOM · 2004

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

Peter Greenaway
biographical reconstruction 20th-century history cinema and film fragmented narrative imprisonment and confinement
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Synopsis

A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. In the second of three parts, we follow Luper as he works in a cinema, giving him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually e

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