Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2014 · 128 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 1,430 VOTES · DIR. Peter Greenaway
Overview
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. In return, he promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of illustrating the Old Testament’s biblical stories. Erotic tales of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Samson and Deliah and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatisations of these erotic stories for his court.
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00:00:58 I had a little trading company.
00:04:51 Or we could say, the 'Jealousies of Juno'
00:09:18 Make her happy and you will therefore make me happy
00:14:16 Tree.
00:18:41 New, there is a thing that wants a name.
00:23:05 who could have mothered Eve, if God has a penis but no womb?
00:27:25 Ebola!
00:32:21 Accuse him of something - blasphemy, heresy, moral turpitude?
00:35:59 Come, we too have a stately ship at sea
00:39:59 with the whale-boards on the front plates.
00:45:02 from also out of love
00:50:55 Then the death of the child.
00:55:08 The two are not so very, very, very...
00:59:35 I will be the Mother Queen.
01:06:45 grew together, side by side.
01:11:26 Our next and fourth sexual taboo -
01:15:51 and therefore we may presume the Margrave himself
01:20:33 Get out. Get out, get out.
01:24:15 and move to our next performance in your honoul?
01:28:46 F?eqou
01:33:21 Your critics have been silenced, Margrave.
01:38:50 I will grant The Pelican Company all they want.
01:45:21 It was meant to be an acted metaphor.
100:00:00 Old Testament.