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Peter Greenaway: potential, unrealized.

Posted by tinear on December 31, 2008 at 14:55:26:
"Draughtsman's Contract."
An almost brilliant effort but, with the strange figure wandering around when a statue really shouldn't..... a waste. The story itself is cleverly told but the conceit, a group of paintings with the clues to murder, isn't exploited very well, at least not enough to involve the viewer. If Greenaway wished to prove himself smarter than his audience, he ought to have made it a fair fight, at least.
"Prospero's Books," I haven't seen for years but here again, if I remember correctly, he allows his style to overwhelm the substance.
"The Thief..." is such an ugly story that, frankly, it cannot please.
I'd say (to answer another poster) that, even if one only grants Lars von Trier one very good film, "Breaking the Waves," it still is superior to the many misses of Greenaway.