Review of The Belly of an Architect

"The Belly of an Architect" is one of those films, not unlike another Greenaway effort "The Pillow Book", which languishes somewhere between reality and the surreal and just beyond the realm of the understandable. The film, which tells of the mental deterioration of an architect, features some postcard quality shots of Rome, good work by Dennehy, and little else. Webb seems miscast; performances seem scripted and staged; too much emphasis on art and not enough on story; and the Tivo'd version I watched was of poor video quality. Over the top stuff which makes dinner table conversation for dilettantes but tedium for the film going public.