''The Garden of Earthly Delights'' (''Ogród rozkoszy ziemskich'') is a 2004 film by the Polish director
Lech Majewski
Lech Majewski (pronounced , ‘Ma-yev-ski’) (born 30 August 1953) is a Polish film and theatre director, writer, poet, and painter.
Life and career
Born in Katowice, Poland, Majewski studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the 1970 ...
. It follows two lovers as they roam
Venice, Italy
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islan ...
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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
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Claudine Spiteri as Claudine
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Chris Nightingale as Chris
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Barry Chipperfield as National Gallery Warder
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Maria Novella Martinoli as Real Estate Agent
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Gian Campi as Professor Carrini
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Mariosa Marchiori as Woman in Black
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Lucrezia Unterholzner as Child
Evaluation
Ágnes Pethő suggests that the
tableau vivant
A (; often shortened to ; plural: ), French language, French for "living picture", is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and ...
performances by the lovers to recreate images from the Bosch artwork break down the differences between and to celebrate art and life.
References
External links
Official Site
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2004 films
Films directed by Lech Majewski
English-language Italian films
Polish romance films
2004 romantic drama films
Films set in Venice
2000s English-language films
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