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Greenaway, Peter
Welsh film director. His films are highly stylized and cerebral, richly visual, and often controversial. His feeling for perspective and lighting reveal his early training as a painter. The Draughtsman's Contract (1983), a tale of 18th-century country-house intrigue, is dazzling in its visual and narrative complexity. Later films include The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989), The Man in the Bath (2001), and The Tulse Luper Suitcases: The Moab Story (2003).
The Falls (1980) established Greenaway's reputation for carefully composed images, a fascination with numbers and lists, and mischievous intellectualism. For all their formal beauty and technical polish, A Zed and Two Noughts (1985), The Belly of an Architect (1987), and Drowning by Numbers (1988) had a mixed critical reception. Other films include Prospero's Books (1991), The Baby of Macon (1992), The Pillow Book (1996), and 8
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