The Belly of an Architect

Art is the food for madness.

• Rated 6.8 out of 10
• Movie
• 1987
• 1h 58m
• Drama

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.

Director

Peter Greenaway

Starring

Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson, Sergio Fantoni