a cannibal and his capital, bound until death.
Reviews tagged ‘peter-greenaway’ by Kay Pro
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The Draughtsman's Contract 1982
i have a theory about the films of peter greenaway; it is one that is true of many, if not most of history's greatest artistic works: that they are impossibly rich in theme and style and therefore requisite of numerous interpretive reconsiderations.
what is immediately clear about the draughtsman's contract is greenaway's contempt for transaction under the context of social, material, and sexual capital. the titular draughtsman is an agent of inter-familial uber-bourgeois collapse, somewhat reminding of The Visitor in…
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The Baby of Mâcon 1993
the loss of cultural innocence in the age of opportunity / the inextricable bindings between capital and familial entropy
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A Zed & Two Noughts 1985
i have written and deleted about one hundred different things about this movie, speculating about greenaway's nuanced thematic layering and metacinematic predilection for symmetry, about biology and history, about the unconscious roles of animals as modern agents of the future, about Everything, and yet nothing feels adequate as far as actually talking about the film goes. contains the universe, once-in-a-lifetime, etc., just see the movie i beg of you