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The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British period comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film (following the feature-length mockumentary The Falls).
Nov 12, 1982 · The Draughtsman's Contract: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser. A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway's witty, stylized, erotic country house murder mystery catapulted him to the forefront of...
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The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) R 06/22/1983 (US) History , Mystery , Comedy 1h 48m. User. Score. What's your Vibe ? Play Trailer. A landscape of lust and cunning. Overview. A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away. Peter Greenaway.
Jul 30, 2003 · In a provincial country house, renowned draughtsman Mr Neville (Anthony Higgins) is contracted to draw 12 pictures of the property by Mrs Herbert (Janet Suzman), the wife of the cantankerous...
Sep 28, 2022 · Newly remastered in 4K by the BFI National Archive, The Draughtsman's Contract recently premiered at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival. ...more.
Marking a leap in the direction of conventional drama by Peter Greenaway, The Draughtsman’s Contract is no mere murder mystery, but an exploration of fundamental aspects of English society – primogeniture, property and Protestantism – at the beginning of England’s global ascendancy.
