The Garden of Earthly Delights (film)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights is a film by the Polish director Lech Majewski
. It follows two lovers as they roam Venice, Italy.
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.
Lech Majewski
Lech Majewski is a Polish film and theatre director, writer, poet, and painter.Born in Katowice, Poland, Majewski studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the 1970s, he then studied at the National Film School in Łódź, notably as a student of Wojciech Has, who taught Majewski directing...
. It follows two lovers as they roam Venice, Italy.
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 triptychThe Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych painted by the early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch , housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. Dating from between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was about 40 or 50 years old, it is his best-known and most ambitious work...
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
- Claudine Spiter — Claudine
- Chris Nightingale — Chris
- Barry Chipperfield — National Gallery Warder
- Maria Novella Martinoli — Real Estate Agent
- Gian Campi — Professor Carrini
- Mariosa Marchiori — Woman in Black
- Lucrezia Unterholzner — Child