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A Balasaur Score of 73 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes 85%. Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 77% of the 1,407 1980s drama movies in this catalog. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
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 recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.
Ratings
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
134 audience votes
Key crew
- Peter GreenawayWriter
- Peter GreenawayDirector
- Wim MertensOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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 MaitlandBattistino
Stills
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