In one of her most complex works, Yvonne Rainer concocts a genre-busting, autobiographical meta-film that interrogates memory, gender dynamics, and the reductive manner in which women’s stories are too often told.
“It’s like a crossword puzzle for the senses. I have never seen a movie quite like it.”—Roger Ebert
In Peter Greenaway’s breakthrough feature, an aristocratic wife (Janet Suzman) in 17th-century England commissions an arrogant young draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) to sketch 12 drawings of her husband’s vast property in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor per picture. This droll, sumptuous, and gleefully perverse comedy packs plenty of lethal twists and catapulted its incomparable writer-director to the forefront of international art cinema.
“It’s like a crossword puzzle for the senses. I have never seen a movie quite like it.”—Roger Ebert
UPCOMING Screenings
RUNNING TIME
108min
VENUE
FORMAT
DCP
TICKET INFORMATION
General Admission: $16
Members: $8
Leadership support for
BAM Access Programs provided by
the Jerome L. Greene Foundation
Leadership support for
BAM Film provided by
the Ford Foundation and
The Thompson Family Foundation
