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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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Brian DennehyStourley Kracklite
Chloe WebbLouisa Kracklite
Lambert WilsonCaspasian Speckler
Sergio FantoniIo Speckler
Stefania CasiniFlavia Speckler
Vanni CorbelliniFrederico
Alfredo VarelliJulio
Geoffrey CoplestonCaspetti
Francesco CarneluttiPastarri
Marino MaséTrettorio
Marne MaitlandBattistinoExplore the crew
- Writer
- Peter Greenaway
- Director
- Peter Greenaway
- Producer
- Colin Callender
- Editor
- John Wilson
- Producer
- Walter Donohue
- Original Music Composer
- Wim Mertens
- Director of Photography
- Sacha Vierny