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Goltzius and the Pelican Company

2012 2h 8m Biography List
79% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 64% Popcornmeter 50+ Ratings
Goltzius and his theatrical troupe arrive at the palace of the Margrave of Alsace.

Critics Reviews

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Mark Kermode Observer (UK) It's typical Greenaway - overly long, peacockingly erudite, eye-catchingly grotesque, perpetually mischievous, and gleefully up itself. Rated: 3/5 Jul 14, 2014 Full Review Geoffrey Macnab Independent (UK) Much of the writing is witty and erudite, and as flamboyant as the visuals. It's just a pity that the film droops markedly as it goes on. Rated: 3/5 Jul 10, 2014 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian No one else could have made this film - a fascinating and somewhat heart-sinking realisation. Rated: 3/5 Jul 10, 2014 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com A moving, breathing entity that's intelligent and entertaining. Aug 6, 2019 Full Review Ben Nicholson CineVue Probably one for those already enamoured with its creator, though there are numerous fascinating threads to untangle from this baroque tapestry if one has the patience. Rated: 3/5 Apr 2, 2019 Full Review George Byrne The Herald (Ireland) Naturally, the scenes all deal with sex and depravity, but the levels of pretension are laughable and the whole thing ends up looking like an old Pet Shop Boys video. Rated: 2/5 Jul 11, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

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Audience Member Have to give it a pass for how lofty, weird but carefully directed it is. This isn't like any of Greenaway's other films in terms of direction and overall composition. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Greenaway's incessant use of screen gimmickry as canvas art adapted to the cinema is a put off making the plot a secondary shadow to his visual chaos. Sex scenes so stylized they become pornography without passion or eroticism make for an extremely boring movie. Thematic brutalizing and humiliation of male characters for its own sake is gratuitously woven into a pointless tawdry fabric. Nothing more than Eurotrash. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting in the beginning, and really ironic, after a while it turns to repetitive and somewhat boring. Greenaway has made better things, to my opinion. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Peter Greenaway's grotesquerie. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Despite it's protracted length and repetitive nature, Greenway's unclassifiable, luscious, sexual fantasia is offbeat and something of it's own nature which I hope to see again, very soon in other films. Somewhere, Paolo Pasolini is smiling, and so am I. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member So explicit in its sexual content So audacious in its visual So frustratingly byzantine in its narrative that its either doomed to obscurity or destined for cult status Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Goltzius and his theatrical troupe arrive at the palace of the Margrave of Alsace.
Director
Peter Greenaway
Producer
Mike Downey, Catherine Dussart, Suza Horvat, Kees Kasander
Screenwriter
Peter Greenaway
Genre
Biography
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 10, 2017
Runtime
2h 8m