As much as I love to look at Julia Ormond naked, and as much as I occasionally enjoy an eccentric movie, this film is too odd for me to endure without the fast-forward button:




































Part 3: Toni Collette in 8 1/2 Women
Part 2: Polly Walker in 8 1/2 Women
Part 1: Amanda Plummer in 8 1/2 Women
After this I can understand why she never did another nude scene
I don’t like torture mind you, but I think I may prefer several forms of torture to having to sit thru a Greenaway film.
He has two extremes in his career that I hate – the incredibly boring (The Draughtman’s Contract may be the most boring film ever made by a “NAME” director – even including Terrence Malick) and the cruelly weird (The Baby of Macon).
In between those extremes, I have often enjoyed his aesthetics, his obsessions, and his love of naked women.
Mirren in Cook Thief… – nuff said
We’ll get there.