This is not a horror movie, it is not a dark murder mystery (though it does have a mystery element, it is not fantasy film (though it is fantastical), it is not even history lessons screwed into a thriller....it is quite simply WEIRD! The kind of weird that is likely to cause nightmares....but then again, it is a Peter Greenaway film.
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| My god, these wigs look dangerous! |
Greenaway is probably best known for his 1989 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover--and if you've ever seen that film, and not this one, let me just say, this is every bit as weird, and in it's own way, horrific!! I mean the wigs alone are enough to scare small children and some adults!!
It stars Janet Suzman, Anne-Louis Lambert, Neil Cunnigham and Anthony Higgins as the "cocksure" artist hired...um err...conned into painting the estate of a local wealthy landowner who is conspicuously missing!! And then there is Hugh Frazer! The rest of the world knows him all too well as Hastings, David Suchet's Poirot's sidekick; to see him struts about a vast and verdant estate in a powdered wig of 1690's England playing up a Dutch/German accent...well it's all so over the top! But in a good way!
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| Ruins at Glastonbury, England. They have a popular connection to King Arthur |
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