The Belly of an Architect (1987)
- 7.0
- 118 mins
- Comedy, Drama
Storyline
An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibition for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures. Through the course of 9 months he becomes obsessed with his belly, suffers severe stomach pains, loses his wife, exhibition, his unborn child and finally his own life.—Ofir Zwebner
Plot Keywords
cancer, sex, unhappy marriage, unsubtitled foreign language, depression, american abroad, paranoia, stray dog, long take, doctor, punched in the face, melancholy, architecture, suicide, cuckold, pregnancy, madness, tragedy, female nudity, surrealism
Short Review
[Brian] Dennehy is outstanding as a man out of his element, and the cinematic rendering of Rome's classic structures is a visual feast.
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