Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Country: GB/HOL
Technical: Kodacolour 119m
Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson
Synopsis:
Three women named Cissie Colpitts drown their husbands and inveigle the local coroner into covering up for them. In the end they drown him too.
Review:
The ingredients are all here - numbers (1-100), games with bizarre rules expounded to Nyman's music with the same authority as the Draughtsman's instructions, etc., death decay and fat men, and sex - though with more humour than before. The flashes of humanity are swiftly covered up by the tortuously allusive dialogue and stilted acting, but the images are as ravishing as ever and there is plenty to occupy the brain.
Country: GB/HOL
Technical: Kodacolour 119m
Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson
Synopsis:
Three women named Cissie Colpitts drown their husbands and inveigle the local coroner into covering up for them. In the end they drown him too.
Review:
The ingredients are all here - numbers (1-100), games with bizarre rules expounded to Nyman's music with the same authority as the Draughtsman's instructions, etc., death decay and fat men, and sex - though with more humour than before. The flashes of humanity are swiftly covered up by the tortuously allusive dialogue and stilted acting, but the images are as ravishing as ever and there is plenty to occupy the brain.
Country: GB/HOL
Technical: Kodacolour 119m
Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson
Synopsis:
Three women named Cissie Colpitts drown their husbands and inveigle the local coroner into covering up for them. In the end they drown him too.
Review:
The ingredients are all here - numbers (1-100), games with bizarre rules expounded to Nyman's music with the same authority as the Draughtsman's instructions, etc., death decay and fat men, and sex - though with more humour than before. The flashes of humanity are swiftly covered up by the tortuously allusive dialogue and stilted acting, but the images are as ravishing as ever and there is plenty to occupy the brain.