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The Draughtsman's Contract

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Reviews Counted: 17

Fresh: 17

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Mrs. Herbert and her husband are having some marital difficulties, so he decides to take a two week holiday by himself. To surprise him on his return, Mrs. Herbert commissions an artist to paint twelve portraits of her estate. The artist... Mrs. Herbert and her husband are having some marital difficulties, so he decides to take a two week holiday by himself. To surprise him on his return, Mrs. Herbert commissions an artist to paint twelve portraits of her estate. The artist agrees, but on the condition that Mrs. Herbert lend him the use of her bodily favors for those two weeks. When Mr.. Herbert is found dead in his own mote at the end of those two weeks, the artist is the prime suspect, and Mrs. Herbert believes the mystery can be solved by close examination of the paintings the artist did. Greenaway's film feels a bit like BLOW-UP, but examines a world far stranger than the one of its setting; it feels as though the film takes place in a parallel universe rather than the 17th century. [More]

Starring: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Dave Hill, Michael Feast

Starring: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Dave Hill, Michael Feast, Hugh Fraser, Anne Louise Lambert

Director: Peter Greenaway

Director: Peter Greenaway
Composer: Michael Nyman

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Nov 23, 1999

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It shows the director at his best and most playful, and it's a strange delight.

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02/21/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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A puzzle book for intellectual aesthetes.

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One of the best, most original and diabolical films to come out of England.

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Dennis Schwartz
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Artificial in the extreme, it may nevertheless be Greenaway's most naturalistic and easygoing film.

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ravishingly beautiful

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08/30/04
Vincent Canby
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Greenaway ploughs the familiar landscape of the murder mystery, but plants in it new, exotic fruits all of his own.

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02/13/04
Anton Bitel
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The Draughtsman's Contract is a thoroughly entertaining murder mystery set in 17th century England.

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Far from Greenaway's best work. Very far.

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