Review of The Pillow Book (1995) by Jens T — 04 Nov 2011

Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book in many ways a creative movie, but sadly enough it's also a very boring movie full of clichés you not only seen in other movies, but also in Greenaway's The Coock, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover. It's basicly romeo and julie all over again, but now only as a difficult ma thematic calculation. It's the story about the Japanese woman named Nagiko (Vivian Wu) who's is told by her mother how to make a pillow book (basically a diary) and she shows such passion for it that he wants other peoples to write on her naked body as well as she does towards others and starts her own kind of modern art, and even writes full novels on people's entire bodies. She meets and falls in love with the English translator Jerome (Ewan McGregor) who falls dangerously in love with her, very dangerously in love with her that it will get consequences.

The Idea for the movie is OK, but to more out of a book than it's already is and involve murder in it, that once more involves a form of cannibalism. Plus the movie plays an very irritating song over again many times. It's like I drowned at the Turkish bath. It's hideous. Thumbs down.