The Baby of Mâcon (1993)

Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Julia Ormond

The Daughter

Ralph Fiennes

The Bishop's Son

Philip Stone

The Bishop

Jonathan Lacey

Cosimo Medici

Don Henderson

The Father Confessor

Celia Gregory

The Mother Superior

Jeff Nuttall

The Major Domo

Jessica Hynes

The First Midwife
(as Jessica Stevenson)

Kathryn Hunter

The Second Midwife

Gabrielle Reidy

The Third Midwife

Frank Egerton

The Prompter

Phelim McDermott

The First Tutor

Tony Vogel

The Father

Tatiana Strauss

The First Nun

Louisa Milwood-Haigh

The Second Nun

Anna Nieland

The Wetnurse

Graham Valentine

Famine

Diana Van Kolck

The Mother

Director
- Peter Greenaway
Writer
- Peter Greenaway
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Trivia
Director Peter Greenaway has said that one of the sources of inspiration for the film was the banning of the Benetton advertising poster campaign in the UK that featured pictures of a newborn baby, covered in blood and still attached to its umbilical cord. An outcry caused the posters to be removed. "What is so horrible about a newborn baby?" Greenaway wanted to know. "Why is that image (one that is seen many times a day in hospitals all over the country) so unacceptable, when much more horrific images are presented on television and the cinema, featuring murder and rape, but glamorized and made safe?" Thus Greenaway set out to make a film featuring murder and rape in which "nothing was glamorized and nothing was safe".

Alternate versions
Finnish video version is cut by 1 minute 14 seconds.

Connections
Featured in The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)

Soundtracks
L'Orfeo
Composed by Claudio Monteverdi

Incredible experiment in narrative.

This is an astonishing Fiction-Within-Fiction exercise that ingeniously implicates the viewer in the appalling acts of violence on screen. Thus, it is one of the most visceral and sickening movies ever made, but of the highest moral and artistic integrity.

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