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Peter Greenaway (written by)
Release Date:
25 May 1990 (USA) more
Plot:
Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving... more | add synopsis
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Buick, Bewick...Twins born to Twins - Get it? more (32 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Andréa Ferréol | ... | Alba Bewick |
| Brian Deacon | ... | Oswald Deuce |
| Eric Deacon | ... | Oliver Deuce |
| Frances Barber | ... | Venus de Milo |
 | Joss Ackland | ... | Van Hoyten |
| Jim Davidson | ... | Joshua Plate |
| Agnès Brulet | ... | Beta Bewick |
| Guusje van Tilborgh | ... | Caterina Bolnes |
| Gerard Thoolen | ... | Van Meegeren |
| Ken Campbell | ... | Stephen Pipe |
 | Wolf Kahler | ... | Felipe Arc-en-Ciel |
| Geoffrey Palmer | ... | Fallast |
| David Attenborough | ... | Documentary Narrator (voice) |
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115 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | Spain:T | Germany:12
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References to Greek Mythology: Alba Bewick is referred to as 'Leda' (in Greek mythology, Leda gave birth to twins Castor & Pollux after being seduced by Zeus in the guise of a swan); in the film, Alba decides to name the twins she gives birth to as 'Castor & Pollydeuces' (in reference to the mythological Gemini twins Castor & Pollux). more
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Alba Bewick:
I am about to become a mother, and you are about to become a father... or fathers.
Oswald Deuce:
You what?
Oliver Deuce:
You are?
Alba Bewick:
I am.
Oswald Deuce:
Good lord.
Oliver Deuce:
You can?
Alba Bewick:
Of course! Is leglessness a form of contraception?
Oswald Deuce:
I'm not sure.
Alba Bewick:
You're not sure!
Oswald Deuce:
I'm delighted!
[...]
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Referenced in The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003) more
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The Teddy Bear's Picnic more
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Greenaway's obsessions with lists, wordplay, coincidence, sexuality, the surreal, and the explicit (not to mention the "conventionally used" ones like men and women, birth and eating and death, physiology (formal and psychological), and abstraction) come to a head in this film. A bizarre mileau of fancy digressions and focused narrativity create a film which is perhaps too obtuse for first time viewers but is, as far as I'm concerned, the best way to initiate oneself into the "world" of Greenaway.