Peter Greenaway

Welsh film director and artist (born 1942), known for visually elaborate, formally experimental films and theatrical compositions.

Peter Greenaway (born 1942 in Newport, Wales) is a filmmaker, artist and former art teacher whose cinema is noted for baroque visual design, theatrical staging and formal experimentation. Reviews here reference collaborations with composers such as Michael Nyman and Wim Mertens and highlight films including Prospero's Book, The Belly of an Architect and Drowning by Numbers.

DeBaser reviews highlight Peter Greenaway's rigorous visual style, theatrical compositions and formal experimentation. Critics praise his aesthetic ambition (notably in Prospero's Book) while some note an emotional or narrative distance. Recurring themes in the reviews include death, voyeurism, sexuality and the primacy of image over conventional storytelling.

For:aesthetes, art directors, cinephiles, fans of experimental and art-house cinema