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The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book
Film Movement Classics

The Pillow Book

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Beautiful to behold and impossible to forget, THE PILLOW BOOK is auteur Peter Greenaway's erotically-charged drama about love, death, revenge and the indelible nature of our earliest memories. Each year on her birthday, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) would became her father's canvas, as he painted the creation myth in elaborate, elegant calligraphy on her body. Years later, she continues the practice with a succession of lovers, including a bisexual translator (Ewan McGregor) who becomes a pawn in an escalating game of vengeance against her beloved father's exploitative publisher. Told in a series of chapters and featuring innovative cinematography and picture-in-picture techniques, Roger Ebert called THE PILLOW BOOK "a seductive and elegant story [that] stands outside the ordinary."

Details

Director(s): Peter Greenaway

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata

Release Year: 1996

Runtime: 126 min

Aspect Ratio(s): 1.33:1

Language(s): ENG- English, Cantonese, ITA- Italian, JPN- Japanese, Mandarin, FRA- French

Sound: Mono

Subtitles: English

Format: Blu-ray

Disc Info: Region Free Blu-ray

Genre: Drama

SKU: FMC_061

Bonus Content
  • Commentary by director Peter Greenaway
  • A new essay by film critic Nicolas Rapold
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Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.
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