The Baby Of Macon (1993)

"The Baby of Macon" is Peter Greenaway's provocative period drama, a stage-bound spectacle built around exploitation, spectacle, and religious allegory in a plague-ravaged town. Julia Ormond takes the lead as the woman hailed as a virgin mother, and the film pushes its theatrical framing into disturbing, explicit territory as her character becomes an object of public obsession and abuse. The archive holds 4 scenes pulled from the film, capturing Ormond nude and exposed within Greenaway's cold, painterly staging. It's a difficult, deliberately unsettling watch, but her performance anchors every frame the camera lingers on.