The read
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 76% of the 124 1980s history movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia. Aside from monetary compensation, the arrangement includes a sexual liaison offered to Neville by Virginia while her estranged husband is away. But when the murdered body of Mr Herbert is discovered at the estate, mysterious clues found in Neville's drawings point to the identity of the killer.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes97%
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
276 audience votes
Key crew
- Peter GreenawayScreenplay
- Peter GreenawayDirector
- Michael NymanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Anthony HigginsMr. Neville
- Janet SuzmanVirginia Herbert
- Dave HillHerbert
- Alastair G. CummingPhilip - Mr. Neville's assistant (as Alastair Cummings)
- Anne-Louise LambertSarah Talmann
- Hugh FraserMr. Talmann
- Neil CunninghamThomas Noyes
- David MeyerPoulenc Brother
- Tony MeyerPoulenc Brother
- Nicholas AmerMr Parkes
- Suzan CrowleyMrs Pierpont
- Lynda La PlanteMrs Clement
Stills
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Themes
adulterydrawing and paintingwitshiresouthhampton17th century
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