UTC Student Film Club Focus presents:

THE PILLOW BOOK
(Great Britain 1997)

a film by Peter Greenaway

THURSDAY, JAN 28, 6 p.m., Signal Mt. Room.
English version + subtitles. No admission fee. Open to public.

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"Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Drowning by
Numbers) continues to delight and disturb us with his talent for combining
storytelling with optic artistry. The Pillow Book is divided into 10
chapters (consistent with Greenaway's love of numbers and lists) and is
shot to be viewed like a book, complete with tantalizing illustrations and
footnotes (subtitles) and using television's "screen-in-screen"
technology. As a child in Japan, Nagiko's father celebrates her birthday
retelling the Japanese creation myth and writing on her flesh in beautiful
calligraphy, while her aunt reads a list of "beautiful things" from a
10th-century pillow book. As she gets older, Nagiko (Vivian Wu), looks for
a lover with calligraphy skills to continue the annual ritual. She is
initially thrilled when she encounters Jerome (Ewan McGregor), a bisexual
translator who can speak and write several languages, but soon realizes
that although he is a magnificent lover, his penmanship is less than
acceptable. When Nagiko dismisses the enamored Jerome, he suggests she use
his flesh as the pages which to present her own pillow book..."
--Michele Goodson