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The Pillow Book
Drama, Romance - 1996
The Pillow Book
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6.7
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A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
Director:
,
Peter Greenaway
Cast:
,
Ewan McGregor
,
Yoshi Oida
,
Vivian Wu
,
Ken Ogata
,
Hideko Yoshida

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Details

Rated:
NOT RATED
Runtime:
126 min
Release date:
12 May 1996
Country:
GB, FR, LU
Languages:
cn, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
5 wins & 2 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

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,
14 Feb 2001
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,
22 Jan 2002
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,
9 Apr 2004
fresh:
A very intimate, sensual film, and a torrid, lurid melodrama, full of passion, jealousy, hatred and revenge.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
At first daunting but ultimately awesomely impressive and beautiful.
– David Stratton,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
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