Fresh
At first daunting but ultimately awesomely impressive and beautiful.
David Stratton, Variety
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The Pillow Book
Overview
Nagiko has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by treachery and bloodlust.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
68%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A very intimate, sensual film, and a torrid, lurid melodrama, full of passion, jealousy, hatred and revenge.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
A seductive and elegant story that combines a millennium of Japanese art and fetishes with the story of a neurotic modern woman who tells a lover: "Treat me like the pages of a book."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Greenaway, whose mind is one of the most impressive, complicated organs that ever sat on the shoulders of a filmmaker, seems to be playing connect the dots to himself, almost dumbing himself down to be commercial.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Rotten
Despite its arresting visual style, its wave after wave of creative and hypnotic images, "The Pillow Book," as its name hints, slowly but inexorably leads to sleep.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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