I was hoping for an experience like the one I had watching The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover but alas, that was not to be. I think there was some meaning here, but I didn't really care. No emotional involvement. Additionally, I'm not sure if it was my network speed or the transfer that Netflix had on streaming, but it looked pretty craptastic. The music was the highlight.

Como arquitecto me siento atraido a peliculas que tengan que ver con algo referente a la profesion y por ello decidi rentar esta cinta...gran error. "The Belly of an Architect" es desperdicio de celuloide en todos los sentidos; es tediosa, repetitiva y sin ninguna razon de existir excepto de crear un melodrama banal alrededor de un arquitecto y su obsesion. Mas que nada es como una telenovela barata para pseudo-intelectuales que pueden admirar las imagenes de Roma y las discusiones sobre arquitectura (las cuales son muy pocas).
"The Belly of an Architect" es una muy mala pelicula que aburrira a casi toda su audiencia y ofendera a arquitectos con su ridicula premisa.

I was hoping for an experience like the one I had watching The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover but alas, that was not to be. I think there was some meaning here, but I didn't really care. No emotional involvement. Additionally, I'm not sure if it was my network speed or the transfer that Netflix had on streaming, but it looked pretty craptastic. The music was the highlight.

Brian Dennehy's sweaty performance as an obsessive architect Stourly Kraklite threatens to burst the constraints of Peter Greenaway's formal designs and intellectual games. The director's most human film.

Remarkable soundtrack. So and so film.