The Draughtsman's Contract
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1h 47m
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Directed by Peter Greenaway | 104 mins | 1982
Greenaway’s 1982 arthouse breakthrough, a 17th-century murder mystery in which an aristocratic wife (Janet Suzman) commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) to sketch her husband’s seemingly idyllic property while he is away—in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor for each of the twelve drawings.
Selected by James N. Kienitz Wilkins.
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