The Belly of an Architect

Sep 23, 1987

1h 58m

★ 6.8

Art is the food for madness.

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Callender Company

Mondial

Tangram Film

British Screen

Hemdale Group

SACIS

Film4 Productions

The Belly of an Architect Trailers

Cast

Stourley Kracklite

Brian Dennehy

Louisa Kracklite

Chloe Webb

Caspasian Speckler

Lambert Wilson

Io Speckler

Sergio Fantoni

Flavia Speckler

Stefania Casini

Frederico

Vanni Corbellini

Julio

Alfredo Varelli

Caspetti

Geoffrey Copleston

Pastarri

Francesco Carnelutti

Trettorio

Marino Masé

Battistino

Marne Maitland

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