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Dominican Rep. The Pillow Book
2,109
Drama
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a "parfait mélange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.
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"Rapturously perverse (...) '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. (...) a richly sensual stylistic exercise." | POS |
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"I can't say that I've ever entertained fantasies of writing on someone's body. But Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book (Cinepix) does, at least, succeed in making it look like an erotic activity" | POS |
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United States |
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"Despite its arresting visual style, its wave after wave of creative and hypnotic images, The Pillow Book, as its name hints, slowly but inexorably leads to sleep." | NEU |
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United States |
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"Greenaway and his picture-perfect cast weave so many interlacing threads into the story, and so many curious subtexts that it sometimes leaves us scratching our heads in wonderment." | POS |
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"It is at first daunting but ultimately awesomely impressive and beautiful." | POS |
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United States |
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"Dense, gorgeous and inexorable - once you give yourself over to its logic - it's a boldly erotic explosion of Asian chic, taken to places no film has gone before" | POS |
United Kingdom |
Empire | "Here both Greenaway's strengths and weaknesses are on show as he toys with the viewers' capacity to ingest blurring metaphors and convoluted content." | NEG |
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