Ewan MacGregor stars in Peter Greenaway’s torrid melodrama about the relationship between a young Japanese woman and a bisexual translator, both of whom make a fetish out of calligraphy , this is both esoteric, arthouse filmmaking and full of passion, jealousy and revenge. A lavish, sensual and endlessly fascinating film that almost fetishes fetishism, this is provocative in every sense. Variety says “an intensely rich experience, as exciting visually and aurally as was Greenaway’s extraordinary “Prospero’s Books”.