- Actors: Colin Cantlie, Jean Williams, Peter Greenaway
- Directors: Peter Greenaway
- Writers: Peter Greenaway
- Language English
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Rtm
- VHS Release Date: 24 Jan 2000
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00004CKOD
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,641 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An essential introduction to the mind of Greenaway.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Peter Greenaway [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This rare collection of video-works tunes the viewer to the wavelenght of Greenaway's visual and narrative thought. As 'Dear Phone' and 'Water Wrackets' are exemplary of the monomanic concentration on certain topics and the consistency with which the director develops them, 'A Walk through H' preludes his capacity to create worlds that are completely focussed inwards and finished. Greenaway's films are indeed Worlds in the cosmological sense; they occur, they evolve and finally they dissolve. By Death, like 'Drowning by Numbers' and the far more brilliant 'A Z and two Noughts', by destruction, like 'The Cook, ...', or even by love, like 'Prospero's Books'. 'Dear Phone' and 'Water Wrackets' demonstrate the sheer beauty of highly concentrated, preoccupied observation and above all the consequent pursuit of a theme. In this respect Greenaway's narrative matches that of Samuel Beckett. The beauty of it lies in its desolation, its barrenness. 'A Walk through H' radiates humour (which is an essential characteristic of intelligence) as well as a unique intuition of the very core of human existence. In all his subsequent films Greenaway is always "walking through H". Only the maps differ. They come in the guise of the Alphabet, of Evolution, of Numbers, Drawings, Verses, Rooms, of Non-existent Buildings. "H" is there, and we, its visitors, abide by its unflexible rules, its inevitability. "H" is a universe and Greenaway uncovers its laws. This makes his films so remarkable and, to me, brilliant. The overcast sky which is always present is the cave-like sky of dreams, where the world is oppressive and strange, ... and inevitable. I believe that viewing this video is necessary to fully appreciate Greenaway's later work, just as 'Music for 18 Musicians' is the key to the oeuvre of Steve Reich (an artist with a similar consisent pursuit of an idea). Eelco Bruinsma
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