Thursday, October 01, 2009
The Draughtsman Contract (1982) and Caravaggio (1986)
Brattle Theatre
In his intricate 1982 head scratcher The Draughtsman Contract, the maddeningly Baroque
Peter Greenaway makes a comment on art versus reality when he has a "statue" in
a tableau vivant urinate - it's the tale of a 17th-century British landscape
artist who gets more than he bargained for. And in his 1986 film Caravaggio,
the late Derek Jarman is as lush, outré, and heavy on the chiaroscuro as the
title Italian Renaissance painter. Catch them both at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge
| Caravaggio @ 5:30 + 9:30 pm; The Draughtsman's Contract @ 7:30 pm |
617.876.6837 or www.brattlefilm.org.
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