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  1. Oct 5, 2018 · But as the opening to Peter Greenaway’s Drowning by Numbers, it is absolutely perfect. The 1988 film is a beautiful series of vignettes and images, twisting our perception back to a youthful curiosity that we have somehow forgotten, or perhaps repressed.

  2. Drowning by Numbers is a crime comedy-drama 1988 British-Dutch film directed by Peter Greenaway. It won the award for Best Artistic Contribution at the Cannes Film Festival of 1988. [3] Plot. The film opens with a little girl jumping rope and counting stars to "a hundred".

  3. May 3, 2023 · Now, one of Greenaway’s greatest works, Drowning by Numbers — perhaps most easily described as a surreal comedy about three women who drown their husbands — is on 4K. A nice presentation is...

  4. Jun 7, 1991 · The best way to review “Drowning by Numbers” is by simple description. Here is a movie so personal and quirky that perhaps you will enjoy it more than I did, and I do not want to spoil your fun, since the movie is playful above everything else.

  5. Drowning by Numbers is a surreal, satirical descent to the dark side of English gamesmanship. It is a brilliant black comedy. Full Review | Oct 11, 2019

  6. But Drowning By Numbers is still definitely a mid-period Greenaway film, firmly oriented around the polestars of sex, death, treachery and cosmic randomness. Where Zed contemplated the process of entropy and slow decay, Drowning interests itself primarily in sudden, violent death.

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  8. Anchored by a feminist message, Drowning by Numbers is really most memorable for its pure delightful quirkiness, both in script and visual design.

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