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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Greenaway again turns a meticulously ordered visual world into an acidic puzzle, using symmetrical compositions, recurring motifs and coolly cruel wit to make obsession feel both cerebral and unsettling.
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Why this pick
Its numbered structure, artificial pastoral tableaux and deadpan ritualistic plotting closely echo the formal games, black comedy and sinister country-house elegance of The Draughtsman's Contract.
03
Why this pick
A stately, architecture-obsessed tragedy whose controlled framing, classical references and emotionally remote protagonist retain Greenaway’s pleasure in elegant systems coming apart.
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Why this pick
This exquisitely mannered period drama shares the oppressive rituals of class, landscape as coded space, and a growing awareness that polite country-house surfaces conceal damaging bargains.
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Why this pick
Losey’s chamber-piece of shifting household dominance offers similarly precise compositions, clipped social performance and a slyly venomous study of desire, status and manipulation.
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01 / THE STORY
Mr. Neville (Anthony Higgins (actor)), a young, arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero, is contracted by Mrs. Virginia Herbert (Janet Suzman) to produce a series of twelve landscape drawings of her country house, its outbuildings and gardens, for her absent and estranged husband. Part of the contract is that Mrs. Herbert agrees "to meet Mr. Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me". Several sexual encounters between them follow, each indicating reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert and sexual aggression or insensitivity on the part of Mr Neville. During his stay, Mr. Neville becomes disliked by several of its visitors and inhabitants, especially by Mrs. Herbert's son-in-law, Mr. Talmann (Hugh Fraser (actor)).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Mr. Neville
Mr. Talmann
Poulenc Brother
Poulenc Brother
Mr Parkes
Mrs Pierpont
Mrs Clement
Virginia Herbert
