The Pillow Book Reviews

I remember it very well, almost 20 years ago, I saw 'The Draughtsman's contract' and it was one of those very defining moments in my life of movie watcher. I had never seen anything like this before and I thought it was one of the most beautiful and spellbinding thing I had ever seen. Later on, I heard that Peter Greenaway was coming up with a new directing effort so I got really curious and I ended up watching this flick in the movie theater when it was released. Basically, as usual with Greenaway, you get something really surrealistic and , to be honest, I had a rather hard time to connect with the whole thing and it didn’t really swept me away like 'The Draughtsman's contract'. On top of that, I wasn’t really convinced by Ewan McGregor who got his breakthrough the very same year with ‘Trainspotting’. I mean, he wasn’t bad at all but it felt as if the whole character didn’t really belong to this tale. Anyway, it looked quite impressive and there was definitely something rather mesmerizing about the whole thing. To conclude, I was probably too young when I watched it to properly process it but I still liked the damned thing and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Peter Greenaway’s work.

Ewan always is confident of his body.