The Belly of an Architect

The Belly of an Architect

Art is the food for madness.

1987•1h 58m•6.8/10

Drama

Ratings

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6.8/10(126)

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.

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Production

Callender Company, Mondial, Tangram Film, British Screen, Hemdale Group, SACIS, Film4 Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Brian Dennehy

Brian Dennehy

Stourley Kracklite

Chloe Webb

Chloe Webb

Louisa Kracklite

Lambert Wilson

Lambert Wilson

Caspasian Speckler

Sergio Fantoni

Sergio Fantoni

Io Speckler

Stefania Casini

Stefania Casini

Flavia Speckler

Vanni Corbellini

Vanni Corbellini

Frederico

Alfredo Varelli

Alfredo Varelli

Julio

Geoffrey Copleston

Geoffrey Copleston

Caspetti

Francesco Carnelutti

Francesco Carnelutti

Pastarri

Marino Masé

Marino Masé

Trettorio

Marne Maitland

Marne Maitland

Battistino

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