A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations.
Direction
Greenaway's obsessive composition—every phone booth a still life.
Writing
Recursive storytelling that eats its own tail with British dryness.
Production
1976 aesthetic so specific you can smell the polyester.
Director
Peter Greenaway
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made two years before Greenaway's breakthrough 'The Falls,' this was his dry run for alphabetized obsession.
The British phone box was already dying in 1976; Greenaway turned elegy into absurdist comedy.
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