The Garden of Earthly Delights
Directed byLech Majewski
Written byLech Majewski
Produced byGuido Cerasuolo
StarringClaudine Spiter
Chris Nightingale
Distributed byGutek Film
Release date
  • March 12, 2004 (2004-03-12) (Poland)
Running time
103 minutes
LanguageEnglish

The Garden of Earthly Delights (Ogród rozkoszy ziemskich) is a 2004 film by the Polish director Lech Majewski. It follows two lovers as they roam Venice, Italy.

Plot

Claudine is a British art scholar who has a terminal case of throat cancer. She is in Venice to give a lecture on the Bosch triptych from which the film gets its name.

Claudine is accompanied in Venice by her lover, Chris, a nautical engineer. Together they explore the canals of Venice. Chris has brought his video camera, and the audience watches Claudine and Chris hang out, make love, swim, converse, rent an apartment, and recreate vignettes from the triptych.

Cast

  • Claudine Spiteri as Claudine
  • Chris Nightingale as Chris
  • Barry Chipperfield as National Gallery Warder
  • Maria Novella Martinoli as Real Estate Agent
  • Gian Campi as Professor Carrini
  • Mariosa Marchiori as Woman in Black
  • Lucrezia Unterholzner as Child

Evaluation

Ágnes Pethő suggests that the tableau vivant performances by the lovers to recreate images from the Bosch artwork break down the differences between and to celebrate art and life.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Ágnes, Pethő (2015), ""Housing" a Deleuzian "Sensation:" Notes on the Post-Cinematic Tableaux Vivants of Lech Majewski, Sharunas Bartas and Ihor Podolchak", in Pethő, Ágnes (ed.), The Cinema of Sensations, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 155, 157–158, ISBN 978-1-4438-6883-9


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