Pillow Book, The

Aroview: Peter Greenaway's further explores the perimeters of cinema with this lush, seductive tale that intertwines the delights of the flesh and literature.

Inspired by an ancient text, a Japanese woman with a calligraphy fetish exacts cunning revenge on a gay publisher by sending him a succession of enscribed naked men, including her bisexual lover Ewan McGregor. Not so much edited as elaborately composited, this original, if overlong, eye-banquet may inspire you to throw out that PC and go back to pen-and-ink.