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The Belly of an Architect

The Belly of an Architect (1987)

1987-09-23 · 118 min · Rating 6.80/10 (128 votes)

Art is the food for madness.

Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.

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architect architecture exhibition failing marriage grotesque illness older man younger woman relationship rome, italy stomach

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