Peter Greenaway is among the most ambitious and controversial filmmakers of his era.
Trained as a painter and heavily influenced by theories of structural linguistics, ethnography and philosophy, Greenaway's films traversed often unprecedented ground, consistently exploring the boundaries of the medium by rejecting formal narrative structures in favor of awe-striking imagery, shifting meanings, and mercurial emotional tension; fascinated by formal symmetries and parallels, his material displayed an almost obsessive interest in list-making and cataloguing, earning equal notoriety for its provocative eroticism as well as its almost self-conscious pretentiousness.
1 Oca 2004
Peter Greenaway
Numerologist Filmmaker
An avant-gardist who earned surprising access to the mainstream.
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