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Plot
Mr. Neville (Anthony Higgins), a young and arrogant artist, is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate by Mrs. Virginia Herbert (Janet Suzman) for her absent and estranged husband. Part of the contract is that Mrs Herbert agrees "to meet Mr Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me.". Several sexual encounters between them follow. Later he makes a similar contract with Mrs Herbert's married, yet childless, daughter. In the second contract, he agrees to comply with what is described as her pleasure, rather than his — a reversal of the position in regard to her mother.
A number of curious objects appear in Neville's drawings, which point ultimately to the murder of Mr Herbert, whose body is discovered in the moat of the house. The drawings can be interpreted to suggest more than one illegal act and to implicate more than one person. There is a violent and shocking plot resolution.
[edit] Themes
Themes in the movie include power, conceit and deceit. A curious deceit perpetrated on the audience is a set of allusions about where the house is; some allude to the Southampton area, but the house is in fact further east, in Kent. This is because the woman who owned the house in the 1980s did not want the public searching out her house and traipsing around it. These explanations are also used by characters in the movie. This deceit continues on the 2008 DVD release, which refers on the inside cover notes to Wiltshire as the location of the house, reinforced by the film's assertion that Radstock was nearby.
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