The read
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 77% of the 1,407 1980s drama movies in this catalog.
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
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes85%
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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Themes
rome, italyarchitectarchitectureolder man younger woman relationshipillnessexhibitionfailing marriagegrotesquestomach
The Best Movies of 1987
The Belly of an Architect is #39 of 60
