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| Bac Films | Release Date: October 1, 1987 |
Starring:
Alfredo Varelli, Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Francesco Carnelutti, Geoffrey Copleston, Lambert Wilson, Marino Masé, Sergio Fantoni, Stefania Casini, Vanni Corbellini
Summary:
An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.
The Belly of an Architect is less a movie than a filmed script--it lacks the sense of surprise and discovery of a world freshly unfolding before the camera that makes the cinema come alive--but it remains an intelligent, provocative effort. [14 May 1987, p.7N]
This is a gassy, overbearing, pretentious little bit of art-in-your face, from the director of "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover," and it revisits some of the filmmaker's favorite places (the men's room, for example) and favorite themes (life as consumption and elimination). Most of the film's meanings are buried inside the artist's big, intellectually high-rolling metaphors.
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