The Draughtsman's Contract
Released: 1983
Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Crime
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.
Starring: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Dave Hill, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, Neil Cunningham, David Meyer, Tony Meyer
Directed by: Peter Greenaway
Written by: Peter Greenaway
Language: German, English, Dutch
Scenes
A naked man acting as an animated statue (played by Michael Feast) stands on a pedestal and urinates, to the delight of a group of party-goers.
Mrs. Pierpont (Suzan Crowley) tells a ribald story at a party about how her father was afraid of fire, so he kept 200 buckets of water in a room under the front stairs. She and her brothers would use them when they were "taken short." "I used to pee like a horse. I still do," she says. Later, a man makes a rude comment about the draughtsman requiring the sheets he is drawing to be wet. "Maybe he wants to be reminded of when he was a baby."
Screen Captures
Alternate Titles
Meurtre dans Un Jardin Anglais
I misteri del giardino di Compton House
The Draughtsman's Contract