The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Directed by Peter Greenaway · Cinematography by Sacha Vierny
R119 min47 frames
Drama
Art is the food for madness.
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What is The Belly of an Architect about?
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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What does the cinematography of The Belly of an Architect look like?
Across 47 sampled frames, The Belly of an Architect builds its coverage from wide compositions (45% of the sample), with medium shots (28%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Sacha Vierny keeps 43% of it in soft, naturalistic light. 45% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 70% of the frames.
What is the color palette of The Belly of an Architect?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Belly of an Architect (1987) are #312d2d, #52504d, #d6d1cd, #a89b8e, #0d0b0b, #f8f8f7 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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