As formally challenging as The Pillow Book may be, it romantically creates a love affair unbound by its physical limits, connecting it to past and present through art and literature.

| Jun 6, 2024

Greenaway makes movies like no other human being, and The Pillow Book is rarely satisfied with a single image. It uses overlapping subframes, trace images, and hieroglyphs, dissolving in and out of view like a picture-in-picture 온라인카지노추천 screen gone lyrical.

| Dec 27, 2022

As intricately assembled as all of Greenaway's works, and representing one of the last films from famed DoP Sacha Vierney, The Pillow Book is worthy of a revisit, easily existing within its own timeless universe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2020

One of the most accomplished chapters in Peter Greenaway's quest to turn movies into books, this may be the writer-director's metaphorical autobiography.

| May 2, 2016

In The Pillow Book, text and texture meet so exquisitely. Sex is a visual art, Greenaway says, and writing is a matter of life and death.

| May 2, 2016

It is exciting that in an age of mass book signings and disrespect for literature, Greenaway is able to sexualize the author's signature as it sweeps up a woman's neck.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 2, 2016

Greenaway provides a visual feast, then he kills your appetite.

| May 2, 2016

The Pillow Book is an experiment in the potential of film. It rejects convention and asks the viewer to forget traditions and entrenched assumptions. Those willing to go along will be hypnotized.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 2, 2016

Greenaway is a dedicated aesthete and sensualist who creates his own little worlds of cruelty, delight and artistic trickery. With tremendous brio and skill, he cuts his patterns into our minds, tickling our skins with his brush.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 2, 2016

I can, with many reservations, recommend The Pillow Book for graphic artists and, of course, for Star Wars completists. People who simply can't get enough nudity might also want to take a look.

| May 2, 2016

A surprisingly humane, satisfying film.

| May 2, 2016

Seductive eye candy masquerading as thought-provoking art cinema.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 2, 2016

Pillow Book may be a dull, heartless, cruel film, but for what it's worth, it looks marvelous.

| May 2, 2016

The Pillow Book is erotica for bookworms. Its poetic story is told brush stroke by brush stroke, in calligraphy painted on naked bodies and in the "pillow book" or diary of Nagiko (Vivian Wu).

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 2, 2016

Extraordinary. Ravishing. Preposterous.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2016

A lavish, sensual and endlessly fascinating film that almost fetishes fetishism, this is provocative in every sense.

| May 2, 2016

The Pillow Book is obsessed with obsessive erotic obsessiveness. If you've ever trembled at the thought of having Japanese characters painted on your nude body, this is the film for you. Bring a lunch; it feels like it'll never end.

| May 2, 2016

Greenaway is a unique filmmaker in that he layers images upon one another in a single frame and doesn't require dialogue to make his films arresting.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 2, 2016

At first daunting but ultimately awesomely impressive and beautiful.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

A very intimate, sensual film, and a torrid, lurid melodrama, full of passion, jealousy, hatred and revenge.

| Jun 24, 2006