Peter Greenaway's "Goltzius" is the second installment in his
"Dutch Masters" series. Its story runs thus: sometime during the
winter of 1590, the Dutch printmaker Hendrik Goltzius holds an
interview with Margrave of Alsace, in the grand library at his
castle on the Rhine. Goltzius needs money in order to build a
printing press to print erotic illustrated books, and he entices
Margrave of Alsace into paying for an extraordinary book of
pictures of Old Testament Biblical stories, by dramatizing the
erotic stories of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba,
Samson and Delilah and John the Baptist and Salome--stories in
which themes of incest, adultery, female entrapment and necrophilia
abound. Margrave's court is completely seduced by Goltzius'
titillating storytelling, and swiftly sinks into a pit of lechery
and religious politics, until the court is forced to buy its way
out, and Goltzius can begin his ambitious endeavor.
Peter Greenaway was born in Wales in 1942. His films include "The
Falls," "The Belly of an Architect," "Drowning By Numbers," "The
Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover," "Prospero's Books,"
"The Pillow Book, " "Nightwatching" and others.
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