The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
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The Baby of Macon is a sumptuous-looking but ultimately shallow tale of manipulation, greed, and religious fanaticism set in Peter Greenaway's favorite, the 17th century. In the city of Macon, an ugly woman suddenly bears a beautiful, healthy baby. Her fellow citizens perceive it as a wonder, with rumors circulating that she could not be the real mother of the child. Her 18-year-old virginal daughter (Julia Ormond) tries to use the situation, claiming that the baby is her own and was born as a
Nov 11, 1993 Wide
Cast
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Julia Ormond
The Daughter -
Ralph Fiennes
The Bishop's Son -
Philip Stone
The Bishop -
Jonathan Lacey
Cosimo Medici -
Don Henderson
The Father Confessor -
Jeff Nuttall
The Major Domo -
Gabrielle Reidy
Midwife -
Anna Nieland
Wet Nurse -
Frank Egerton
Cantor -
Graham Valentine
Famine -
Celia Gregory
Mother Superior -
Dennis Rudge
Entourage Servant -
Tatiana Strauss
Nun -
Tony Vogel
Father -
Richard Blair
Soldier -
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I watched it to the end out of a sense of duty, not with pleasure or any hope of edification.
Top CriticIt's unpleasant to view, but is not without many rewards if you can be open-minded and sit through its anti-religious views of the nativity.
No other filmmaker could have made The Baby of Mâcon. And no other filmmaker would have wanted to.
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This rather simple story is lavishly obfuscated and complicated with director Peter Greenaway's usual baroque treatment. The sets and costumes are spectacular and, as always, there is plenty of frontal nudity (yup, Ralph Fiennes shows his wee-wee). Three particular scenes are grotesquely violent and bound to turn off many viewers, but if you can get past the first few minutes -- where a naked, twitching, undead lunatic sputters some opening lines so laboriously that you won't even understand all the words -- you'll probably be able to stomach the rest of the film without any real trouble.