A luminous, highly erotic treatise on art, love, and death.
The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:4
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.8/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 23, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: A tale of love, philosophy, eroticism, and art, set in London and Venice, with Bosch's GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS in the background. Claudia is an art historian specializing in the paintings of... A tale of love, philosophy, eroticism, and art, set in London and Venice, with Bosch's GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS in the background. Claudia is an art historian specializing in the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. Chris is a maritime engineer writing a dissertation on gondola construction. They share a passion for interpreting the hidden language of symbols. When Claudia discovers she has larynx cancer, she decides to spend her last days in Venice. There, her obsession with the world of Bosch causes her and Chris to make the Garden's visions real. Their perverse, sensual close-ups provide a counterpoint for their appointment with death. [More]
Director: Lech Majewski
Director: Lech Majewski
Screenwriter: Lech Majewski
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Reviews for The Garden of Earthly Delights
Chris is the putative author of the film's images, but they're overlaid with Claudine's relentlessly overwhelming voice-over, which alternates between a crisp, knowing lecture about Bosch and more personal musings.
You're either going to love this film and run out to see everything Majewski has directed, or you're going to be bored silly.
Lech Majewski's digital video riff on Death in Venice takes its name from the triptych by Hieronymus Bosch.
There is magic in these intimate passion plays, which are filled with sloppy, loving detail and are mounted without a hint of pretension. Each banal moment becomes achingly gorgeous.
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