The Pillow Book
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 9, 2015
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Film Movement
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vivian Wu & Ewan McGregor | |
Performer: | Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Judy Ongg & Ken Mitsuishi | |
Directed by | Peter Greenaway | |
Edited by | Peter Greenaway & Chris Wyatt | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Greenaway | |
Produced by | Kees Kasander | |
Director of Photography: | Sacha Vierny |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
It is exciting that in an age of mass book signings and disrespect for literature, Greenaway is able to sexualize the author's signature as it sweeps up a woman's neck.
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New York Daily News
In The Pillow Book, text and texture meet so exquisitely. Sex is a visual art, Greenaway says, and writing is a matter of life and death.
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TIME Magazine
Greenaway provides a visual feast, then he kills your appetite.
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People Magazine
...It's a true erotic caprice...
Entertainment Weekly
I can, with many reservations, recommend The Pillow Book for graphic artists and, of course, for Star Wars completists. People who simply can't get enough nudity might also want to take a look.
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Orlando Sentinel
...[An] eye-feast...
Film Comment
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Seductive eye candy masquerading as thought-provoking art cinema.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
An arresting Japanese model seeks to indulge her fantasy of having calligraphy inked on her body, a whim based partly on her father's habit of painting poetry on her face when she was a girl and partly on readings from the 10th-century erotica tome "The Pillow Book." But the tables are turned when she meets a bisexual English translator who wants to be her canvas instead. An assault on the senses in the best Greenaway tradition, featuring frames-within-frames, elaborate costuming and production design, painterly shot composition, and utterly frank scenes of nudity and violence.
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Product Info
- UPC: 857692005260
- Shipping Weight: 0.23/lbs (approx)
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