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Peter Greenaway directed this elliptical and visually intricate tale of the far side of erotic and intellectual attraction. As a girl, Nagiko would receive a special gift each year from her father: a calligrapher (Ken Ogata) who would carefully paint a poem on her face, as her aunt (Hideko Yoshida) read aloud from The Pillow Book, a classic Japanese text on the art of love. As Nagiko (Vivian Wu) reached adulthood, her father insisted on putting a stop to this ritual, and he persuaded her to
NC-17, 2 hr. 3 min.
Drama, Art House & International, Special Interest, Cult Movies
Jun 6, 1997 Wide
Dec 15, 1998
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
All Critics (43) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (7) | DVD (5)
Yawn.
Never less than mesmerizing, even when you're not exactly sure what exactly Greenaway is trying to say.
Both exhilarating and exhausting, The Pillow Book is undeniably bold, sometimes beautiful, filmmaking.
Manages to carry on Peter Greenaway's tradition of cherishing both the erotic and the exotic.
A beautiful woman is obsessed with inking characters on human flesh, making herself and her lovers into living books. Gorgeous and sensual, with layered images and pictures framed inside of other pictures. Greenaway's painterly picture is a loving tribute both to calligraphy and to the nude human form, and the movie
May 26, 2011
Super Reviewer
Great film, Peter Greenaway direction is beautiful! This is the first film were Hollywood took note of the young Ewan McGregor too but it?s Vivian Wu who steals the show.
September 28, 2009Super Reviewer
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