Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 2 Vaux to the Sea

Genre

The Tulse Luper Suitcases is a multimedia project by Peter Greenaway, initially intended to comprise three feature films, a 16-episode TV series, and 92 DVDs, as well as web sites, CD-ROMs and books.The three features were released in 2003 and 2004. Two books, Tulse Luper in Turin and Tulse Luper in Venice, were published in 2004. As of 2005, an additional feature, A Life In Suitcases, is planned, which will largely be a condensation of material from the first three films. (Wikipedia)

Synopsis

Tulse Luper continues his adventures as a professional prisoner. Taken by his jailers at the outbreak of war to the German-occupied chateau of Vaux, north of Paris, he becomes involved in the lives of three Fascist-loving women, a German officer with grand designs of reversing the history of Fouquet and Louis XIV, and Charlotte des Arbres, a great teller of love stories, pining for her absent Spanish lover. Involved in theft and murder, Luper is driven away from Vaux to be imprisoned in the Arc en Ciel Cinema in Strasbourg where he collects films of prisons and prison-escapes, survives Allied bombing and is befriended by two French children who spirit him mysteriously away to Dinard on the French coast to a bourgeois household of a china-dog loving mother who impersonates Ingres heroines, and an anatomist father who is obsessed with his Jewish lover exiled to a concentration camp and persecuted by a sexually ambitious housemaid. Here Luper is obliged to dress as a female servant, pose as a life model and teach children English and the means to survive adversity. Chateau, cinema and bourgeois household, Vaux, Strasbourg, Dinard, three prisons in Northern France, physical enough, but more significantly metaphorical, the prisons of classic literature, of cinematic dreams and of stifling bourgeois claustrophobia.

JJ Feild Role

Tulse Luper / Floris Creps

Release dates

ANONIMUL 2005: Gala Presentation

HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005: Digital Cinema

INTERNATIONAL INSTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL 2005: Mined Zone

MEXICO CITY'S INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY FILM FESTIVAL 2005: Parallel Focuses: Galas

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2005: Special Screening

BERLINALE 2004: Special Event

MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA AND NEW MEDIA 2004: Events

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004: Contemporary World Cinema

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