| Biography | Filmography | Ewan News | Moulin Rouge | Miscellaneous |
 |
The Pillow Book (1996)
|
 |
Awards:
Art Film Festival (1997)-Golden Key Art Fiction: Best Cinematography. Catalonian International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain-(1996) Best Cinematography and Best Film. London Critics Circle Film Award (1997) British Actor of the Year- Ewan McGregor. Golden Space Needle Award Best Director (1997). |
| The Film: As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her mother reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a "parfait mélange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images. McGregor plays a British bisexual translator, Jerome, whose body becomes a blank slate for the obsessive, exquisite calligraphy of Nagiko |
 |
 |
My Comments: I finally watched Pillow Book. All I can say is its a very unusual movie. I found it long and boring and I was very pleased when Ewan finally arrived on the film. What wonderful acting. Ewan was great. My favourite scene was when Ewan's charactor Jerome was outside the door of Nagiko appartment asking to be let in. He was banging on the door and shouting to be let in. Boy what emotion you could hear in his voice. You never saw him banging on the door, but you could feel his pain just by hearing his voice. What talent this man has. I never finished watching Pillow Book. May be I should but it disgusted me and for now I don't think I will ever watch Pillow book again. I Rate This Movie: 1 out of 10 |
| Home | Biography | Filmography | Ewan News | Moulin Rouge | Miscellaneous |