Peter Greenaway's 17-minute fever dream where phones become characters and chaos has a narrator.
A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations.
Direction
Greenaway's obsessive composition—every phone booth a still life.
Writing
Recursive storytelling that eats its own tail with British dryness.
Production
1976 aesthetic so specific you can smell the polyester.
Director
Peter Greenaway
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