Peter Greenaway

Directeur, Scénariste, Éditeur, Acteur, Producteur

5 avril 1942 (84 ans)
Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh writer-director, painter, and video artist based in Amsterdam. Throughout the late 1960s and '70s, he produced several experimental documentary/mockumentary shorts while working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information. This early period culminated in "The Falls" (1980), a three-hour mockumentary indexing the strange effects of the VUE (the Violent Unknown Event) on 92 people whose names begin with the letters F-A-L-L. He made his dramatic feature film debut with "The Draughtsman's Contract" (1982), and throughout the 1980s directed a string of critically acclaimed and frequently controversial films: "A Zed & Two Noughts" (1985), "The Belly of an Architect" (1987), "Drowning by Numbers" (1988), and his best-known work, the vicious Thatcher-era satire "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" (1989). In the 1990s, he directed the Shakespeare adaptation "Prospero's Books" (1991), controversial religious satire "The Baby of Mâcon" (1993), erotic drama "The Pillow Book" (1996), and "8½ Women" (1999), an homage to the films of Federico Fellini, a major influence on Greenaway. In the early 2000s, Greenaway embarked on the ambitious "Tulse Luper" project, a multimedia body of historical fiction revolving around the life of the eponymous fictional hero. In addition to novels, CD-ROMs, online material, and a touring exhibition, the project spawned a trilogy of feature films: "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story" (2003), "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea" (2004), and "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish" (2004). The trilogy was followed by a fourth feature, "A Life in Suitcases" (2005), which abridges the Tulse Luper saga into a single film. Since the mid 2000s, Greenaway's film work has focused on idiosyncratic, heavily fictionalised biopics dedicated to some of his favourite artists: Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn in "Nightwatching" (2007), Dutch Baroque engraver Hendrik Goltzius in "Goltzius and the Pelican Company" (2012), Soviet Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein in "Eisenstein in Guanajuato" (2015), and Romanian-French sculptor Constantin Brâncuși in "Walking to Paris" (TBD). Greenaway has lived and worked in Amsterdam since the mid 1990s. He is married to artist Saskia Boddeke, with whom he has two children. He also has two children from a previous marriage to potter Carol Greenaway.

Films & Séries sur Plex

  • The Pillow Book
    The Pillow Book1996
  • Le Bébé de Mâcon
    Le Bébé de Mâcon1993
  • Huit femmes et demi
    Huit femmes et demi1999
  • Rembrandt's J'Accuse
    Rembrandt's J'Accuse2008

Connue pour

  • Le Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant
    Le Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant1989
  • Triple Assassinat dans le Suffolk
    Triple Assassinat dans le Suffolk1988
  • The Pillow Book
    The Pillow Book1996
  • Meurtre dans un jardin anglais
    Meurtre dans un jardin anglais1982
  • Zoo
    Zoo1985
  • Prospero's Books
    Prospero's Books1991
  • La Ronde de nuit
    La Ronde de nuit2007
  • Le Ventre de l'architecte
    Le Ventre de l'architecte1987
  • Huit femmes et demi
    Huit femmes et demi1999
  • Le Bébé de Mâcon
    Le Bébé de Mâcon1993
  • Que Viva Eisenstein !
    Que Viva Eisenstein !2015
  • The Falls
    The Falls1980
  • The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1
    The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 12003
  • Goltzius et la Compagnie du Pélican
    Goltzius et la Compagnie du Pélican2012
  • Rembrandt's J'Accuse
    Rembrandt's J'Accuse2008
  • Dear Phone
    Dear Phone1976
  • H Is for House
    H Is for House1973
  • A Walk Through H
    A Walk Through H1978
  • Intervals
    Intervals1973

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