The Belly of an Architect
Art is the food for madness.
1987 | 118m | English
Popularity: 0.7 (history)
| Director: | Peter Greenaway |
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| Writer: | Peter Greenaway |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 23, 1987 |
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| Director: | Peter Greenaway |
| Writer: | Peter Greenaway |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | rome, italy, architect, architecture, older man younger woman relationship, illness, exhibition, failing marriage, grotesque, stomach |
| Production Companies | British Screen, Film4 Productions, Hemdale Group, Mondial, Callender Company, Tangram Film, SACIS |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $2,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 04, 2026 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Brian Dennehy | Stourley Kracklite |
| Chloe Webb | Louisa Kracklite |
| Lambert Wilson | Caspasian Speckler |
| Sergio Fantoni | Io Speckler |
| Stefania Casini | Flavia Speckler |
| Vanni Corbellini | Frederico |
| Alfredo Varelli | Julio |
| Geoffrey Copleston | Caspetti |
| Francesco Carnelutti | Pastarri |
| Marino Masé | Trettorio |
| Marne Maitland | Battistino |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Peter Greenaway | Writer, Director |
| John Wilson | Editor |
| Maurizio Millenotti | Costume Design |
| Sacha Vierny | Director of Photography |
| Wim Mertens | Original Music Composer |
| Luciana Vedovelli | Art Direction |
| Glenn Branca | Music |
| Ben van Os | Production Design |
| Luigi Rocchetti | Makeup Artist |
| Giorgio Desideri | Set Dresser |
| Peter Maxwell | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Glenn Branca | Additional Music |
| Peter Glossop | Production Sound Mixer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Colin Callender | Producer |
| Conchita Airoldi | Associate Producer |
| Walter Donohue | Producer |
| Dino Di Dionisio | Associate Producer |
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