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SINOPSIS

As an introduction to a unique personal vision, director Peter Greenaway's first commercially released feature film is a calling card of dazzling virtuosity. A 17th-century draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) is hired to make 12 drawings of a country estate, and is paid in sexual favours by the landowner's wife and daughter (Janet Suzman and Anne Louise Lambert). The possibility of his drawings being an artistic witness to murder is deftly, tantalisingly displayed and his ultimate downfall from arrogant posturing is a lesson in class-distinction, only to be expected from the aristocratic world he's tried to enter. Clever, witty and with obsessively minimalist music by Michael Nyman to reinforce the remarkable visuals, this has the growing momentum of a ground-breaking debut.