The Pillow Book (1996)

As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting, a ritual that will dominate the rest of her life.

A typical example of Greenaway's pretentiousness by stuffing as much artiness into 2 hours of film as possible, but nevertheless beautiful images aplenty.