The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1 - The Moab Journey

[d.a.walker]

Has anyone else seen this very very strange Peter Greenaway film? It's from 2002 and barely had a release at all outside of film festivals and the Netherlands.

It's actually very very good, rather unusual as can be expected, and slightly too perverse in places. It is about a man called Tulse Luper who collects things in suitcases, 92 suitcases, and is looking for pure Uranium, whose atomic number is also 92! It's set in the middle of WWII and follows him from Wales to Utah to Antwerp, where he unintentionally attracts the attentions of facists.

It's part 1 of 3 films Peter Greenaway has made, and the more annoying thing is that only part 1 has had a release. Parts 2 and 3 are absolutely nowhere on DVD, part 2 has been shown at the cinema in Spain and that seems to be about it. I find it weird considering that Peter Greenaway has just finished making Night Watching, a film about the romantic life of Rembrandt and how he reveals the identity of a murderer through one of his paintings, and yet there are 3 films all around 2hrs in length each, stunnningly made, sitting in limbo!!!

And worse of all I REALLY want to know what happens in part 2!!!!!