Product Description
Beautiful to behold and impossible to forget, The Pillow Book is auteur Peter Greenaway's erotically-charged homage to the art of calligraphy and the indelible nature of even our earliest memories. As a young girl, Nagiko (Vivan Wu) became her father's canvas each year on her birthday, as he'd paint on her face and neck the creation myth in elaborate, elegant calligraphy. As a young woman, she finds pleasure in continuing the practice with a succession of lovers, particularly a bisexual translator (Ewan McGregor) who becomes a pawn in an escalating game of revenge on the publisher who once exploited her beloved father's hard work.
Review
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Cannes Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Thessaloniki International Film Festival ---
The Pillow Book finds the filmmaker at his most atypically seductive, creating a spellbinding web of cruel elegance and intricate gamesmanship, exploring the exotic, haunting beauty of the bizarre. --Janet Maslin, The New York Times
A seductive and elegant story [that] stands outside the ordinary --Roger Ebert
About the Actor
Stars Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Son of a Gun) and Vivian Wu (The Joy Luck Club, The Last Emperor)
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Director : Peter Greenaway
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
- Run time : 2 hours and 6 minutes
- Release date : June 9, 2015
- Actors : Ewan McGregor, Vivian Wu
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Film Movement
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
