The Belly of an Architect (1987)
"Art is the food for madness."
ThumbScore
👍 72%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 70%
(RT: 85%, MC: 56) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Chloe Webb as Louisa Kracklite
Sergio Fantoni as Io Speckler
Vanni Corbellini as Frederico
Alfredo Varelli as Julio
Geoffrey Copleston as Caspetti
Is The Belly of an Architect good?
Most people think so. 72% audience score, estimated from 135 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 70%.
Overview
Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions. Wikipedia ↗
