The Draughtsman's Contract
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Greenaway’s earlier film shares the formal compositions, ritualised power games and exacting architectural eye of The Belly of an Architect, unfolding as a coolly comic period puzzle.
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Why this pick
Greenaway’s earlier film shares the formal compositions, ritualised power games and exacting architectural eye of The Belly of an Architect, unfolding as a coolly comic period puzzle.
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Its monumental Roman spaces, sculpted light and emotionally repressed protagonist create a similarly sensual, uneasy study of private obsession framed by grand design.
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A lavish, contemplative drama in which immense architecture and meticulously arranged colour express a man’s changing sense of identity, isolation and historical scale.
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Pasolini’s earthy Renaissance pageant provides a less austere but related pleasure in art history made tactile: bodies, fresco-like compositions and irreverent encounters staged with visual confidence.
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Its Rome is a living museum of palaces, monuments and private spectacle; elegant camera movement and melancholy satire echo the architectural grandeur and cultivated unease of Greenaway’s film.
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01 / THE STORY
The American architect Stourley Kracklite has been commissioned to construct an exhibition in Rome dedicated to the architecture of Étienne-Louis Boullée. Doubts arise among his Italian colleagues about the legitimacy of Boullée among the pantheon of famed architects, perhaps because Boullée was an inspiration for Adolf Hitler's architect Albert Speer.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Caspasian Speckler
Frederico
Io Speckler
Louisa Kracklite

Stourley Kracklite