Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
The story
R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia. Aside from monetary compensation, the arrangement includes a sexual liaison offered to Neville by Virginia while her estranged husband is away. But when the murdered body of Mr Herbert is discovered at the estate, mysterious clues found in Neville's drawings point to the identity of the killer.
- adultery
- drawing and painting
- witshire
- southhampton
- 17th century
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Anthony Higgins
Mr. Neville
Janet Suzman
Virginia Herbert
Dave Hill
Herbert
Anne-Louise Lambert
Sarah Talmann
- Hugh Fraser — Mr. Talmann
- Neil Cunningham — Thomas Noyes
- David Meyer — Poulenc Brother
- Tony Meyer — Poulenc Brother
- Nicholas Amer — Mr Parkes
- Suzan Crowley — Mrs Pierpont
- Lynda La Plante — Mrs Clement
- Michael Feast — The Statue
- David Gant — Seymour
- Alastair Cumming — Philip
- Steve Ubels — Hoyten
- Directed
- Peter Greenaway
- Written
- Peter Greenaway
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 272 ratings
- Studio
- BFI, Film4 Productions
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