Art is the food for madness.
68% Match1987R1h 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.
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson, Sergio Fantoni, Stefania Casini, Vanni Corbellini
Cast
About The Belly of an Architect
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.
Popularity
2.5
Budget
$2,000,000
Release
Sep 23, 1987
Genres
Drama
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Studios
Callender Company
Mondial
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British Screen
Hemdale Group
SACIS
Countries
ItalyUnited Kingdom
Languages
ItalianEnglish
Keywords
rome, italyarchitectarchitectureolder man younger woman relationshipillnessexhibitionfailing marriagegrotesquestomach