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Peter Greenaway's remarkable directorial debut still dazzles - and this BFI release of The Draughtsman's Contract has superb extras.
- Peter Greenaway
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The Draughtsman's Contract: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser. A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
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- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Peter Greenaway
- 1982-11-12
Jul 30, 2003 · In a provincial country house, renowned draughtsman Mr Neville (Anthony Higgins) is contracted to draw 12 pictures of the property by Mrs Herbert (Janet Suzman), the wife of the cantankerous...
Aug 1, 2023 · The central premise of Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract is dependent on a specific 1694 law - but, strangely, it's a law that doesn't exist...
The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British period comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film (following the feature-length mockumentary The Falls).
Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway's witty, stylized, erotic country house murder mystery catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema in 1982.
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- Comedy, Drama
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An intriguing murder mystery, a cheeky satire on English class, and a naughty sex romp—rendered in such a rigorous way that it requires steadfast attention.... The point of all the provocation ...
