Tulse Luper Suitcases ( The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story ) ( The Moab Story )

Tulse Luper Suitcases (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Alternate Title: The Moab Story
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
127 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Film Credits
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Teaser(s)
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Hungary ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Peter Greenaway

Written By:
Peter Greenaway

Actors:
JJ Feild ..... Tulse Luper/Floris Creps
Valentina Cervi ..... Cissie Colpitts
Drew Mulligan ..... Martino Knockavelli
Nigel Terry ..... Sesame Esau
Raymond J. Barry ..... Stephen Figura
Caroline Dhavernas ..... Passion Hockmeister
Deborah Harry ..... Fastidieux
Steven Mackintosh ..... Gunther Zeloty
Jordi Mollà ..... Jan Palmerion
Kevin Tighe ..... William Gottschalk
Scot Williams ..... Percy Hockmeister
Yorick van Wageningen ..... Julian Lephrenic
Jack Wouterse ..... Erik van Hoyten
Tanya Moodie ..... Guam Ravillion

Synopsis:

Iconoclastic director Peter Greenaway begins his most ambitious project to date with this feature, the first in a proposed series of films, television programs, and multimedia projects that examine the contents of 92 suitcases, each revealed by title character Tulse Henry Purcel Luper. Broken into three sections spanning 1928 to 1940, The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part One follows our young hero from age 10, when he is reprimanded by his father for scrawling some graffiti on a wall in his desolate South Wales neighborhood. Years later, Tulse (JJ Field) is a desert explorer who winds up being further punished by the aptly-named dominatrix Passion Hockmeister (Caroline Dhavernas). Finally, in the film's last section, Tulse is in Antwerp at the start of World War II, where he ends up being imprisoned by Nazis. Told in a fractured, non-narrative style, The Tulse Luper Suitcases also incorporates many inter-titles, superimposed images, an ever-present narrator presented in a picture-within-picture format, intentionally fake-looking sets, and many, many references to other Greenaway films and characters.

The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium.

The first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism. Packed with stylistic flourishes, it's a dense, comic study of 20th century history, revolving around the contents of one man's suitcases.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 19 June, 2009.

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