Dir. Peter Greenaway
1982 | 108 mins | UK
English
Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert

SHOWING TIMES:

• Tue 14 Feb: 5.20pm

40th anniversary re-release of Peter Greenaway’s first major feature, remastered by the BFI.

In rural Wiltshire at the end of the 17th century, Mrs Herbert hires artist Mr Neville to produce a series of drawings of her country house as a gift for her inattentive husband, to be carried out while he is away on business. Their contract requires Mrs Herbert’s sexual compliance to the draughtsman, an arrangement that she begins to question as his sexual advances become increasingly aggressive.

With Michael Nyman’s Purcell-inspired score permeating throughout and visuals influenced by Caravaggio, Vermeer and Rembrandt, The Draughtsman’s Contract is a work of cinematic art unlike anything seen before.

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74

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