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The Belly of an Architect

  • 1987
  • TMDB 6.8/10
  • 1h 58m

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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Overview

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

  • 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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