The Draughtsman's Contract
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
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"Being of English origin the film has a particular fascination. Certain things become apparent if you know England well, but also I suspect on repeated viewing. A tale of conceit, deception and power. The conceit of the Draughtsman, all too apparent, is matched by the conceit of the upper classes as the film unfolds. The pictoral conceit referred to in the film repeatedly is matched by a pictoral conceit played on the viewer: the wigs were never that big, the house, garden and grounds stunning and the weather too perfect. Deception exists at many levels. The viewer is deceived as to where the..."
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Director Peter Greenaway, a former art student, created the sketches that feature in the film. In fact the close-up shots of the draughtsman drawing are of his hands.
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A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.