Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
Submitted by kls010 on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 14:47.

Ima from the forum spotted that there has been another TLS film added to the current list on IMDb. It is called Antwerp (2003) on IMDb but the official Peter Greenaway website names it as The Moab Story: Part 2. With a length of 107 minutes, apparently it was premiered at the Venice International Film Festival.
Synopsis: Tulse Luper, a determined optimist, and a compulsive writer and scribbler, imprisoned in a hotel bathroom in the Grand Railway Station Hotel in Antwerp, has his copious writings investigated and transcribed by orders of the Antwerp stationmaster, by Cissie Colpitts, a woman who will become his life-long lover. Luper learns to use his prison time, writing on his prison walls, inventing projects for literature, theatre and cinema, and engaging with his jailers in various plots, schemes and adventures, causing the situation of jailer and prisoner to be persistently interchangeable, all the time making plans to escape with the aid of his friend Martino Knockavelli and his assembly of dubious collaborators. The stationmaster is determined to photograph Luper as a Fascist sympathiser, and puts him in the hands of two eccentric jailers, Figura and Zeloty, who are eventually bought off by Lephrenic, one of Luper¹s Mormon American acquaintances, who stages Luper¹s phoney death as the Germans bomb the railway station. Luper is whisked away to other war-zones, other prisons and other adventures.
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