Le script du film de Peter Greenaway, qui explore l'amour, le désir et la parentalité à partir d'un triangle amoureux entre deux hommes et une femme sous l'orage.
A woman, restless for some meaningful experience in the search for love, meets a man in search of sex. They both take a chance of finding what they want and sleep together in a thunderstorm. The man falls in love; the woman falls for the sex.
The woman meets a second man and is intrigued. They sleep together in a second thunderstorm, and, knowing perhaps now how to do it, she falls in love; he falls for the sex.
A familiar eternal emotional triangle has developed.
In the presence of the woman, the men meet, quarrel and fight. The woman makes an uneasy peace between them. Through her the men become intrigued in one another. The woman knows she has a choice to make. Take love but not give it. Give love but not take it. She takes a chance to find love a second time. On her suggestion, all three sleep together in a third thunderstorm. The men are mutually attracted. They seek sex and maybe love with one another. The woman retreats, persuaded to drop out of the emotional triangle.
After the night of three-way sex, the woman discovers she is pregnant and decides to have the baby. She is not interested to know which of the two men is the father. The two potential fathers are invited to the birth of twins, two boys. The two men become fathers without knowing who is the father – two babies for two fathers. As a fourth thunderstorm approaches, the woman leaves for a distant country, still restless for some meaningful experience, leaving the babies with their fathers.
Peter Greenaway (né en 1942, Newport, Pays de Galles, vit et travaille à Amsterdam) est un
cinéaste et plasticien gallois, dont les expositions et installations ont pu être vues au Palazzo Fortuny, Venise, à la Galerie Joan Miro, Barcelone, le Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam ainsi qu'au Louvre. Réalisateur de 12 films et près de 50 courts métrages et documentaires, il est régulièrement nominé aux festivals de Cannes, Venise et Berlin. Il a collaboré avec les compositeurs Michael Nyman, Glen Branca, Wim Mertens, Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Borut Krzisnik et David Lang. Parmi ses œuvres majeures,
Meurtre dans un jardin anglais,
Le Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant,
The Pillow Book,
The Tulse Luper Suitcases...
