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MOVIE · 1987

The Belly of an Architect

Art is the food for madness.

★ 6.8Drama

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.

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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

Featured cast

Brian DennehyStourley Kracklite
Chloe WebbLouisa Kracklite
Lambert WilsonCaspasian Speckler
Sergio FantoniIo Speckler
Stefania CasiniFlavia Speckler
Vanni CorbelliniFrederico
Alfredo VarelliJulio
Geoffrey CoplestonCaspetti

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