A Swiss businessman, rich with characteristic in Japan, is so distraught with grief at his wife’s dying that his grown son tries to console him by setting up a harem of women, inspired by Fellini’s 8âˆ?. (The half-chain introduced into their Tommy bordello, incidentally, is not mutilated but a dwarf - so much for taste!) Signal various liaisons, experiments and demonstrative intrigues, as Peter Greenaway’s lacklustre narrative meanders toward its predictable and stereotypical conclusion. The film’s the unremarkable collage of lists, perverse conceits, strange images, arcane allusions and nudity, but far more lazily assembled than previously. The writing is without wit, the pacing clumsy, the ’surrealism’ laboured and lubberly, the whole pretty pointless. And simply Polly Walker gives anything approaching a decent acting.
To Kill the King
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