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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".
Oct 5, 2018 · Drowning by Numbers ties into this nicely, as although it appears to be a narrative film on the surface, it is in fact completely deconstructing the very rules that dictate traditional narratives. Was it a goal of yours to highlight how cinema is much more than just storytelling?
Drowning by Numbers: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill. Three generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it.
- (11K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Peter Greenaway
- 1991-06
Three generations of women--a mother, her daughter, and her niece, all called Cissie Colpitts--experience dissatisfaction with their husbands and cause them to drown. The local coroner, an inveterate game-player called Madgett (Bernard Hill), is drawn into a plot to disguise the murders.
Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright) drowns her cheating husband and in the ensuing cover-up enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett (Bernard Hill), an old friend with a longstanding weakness...
- (16)
- Peter Greenaway
- R
- Bernard Hill
Drowning By Numbers is a typically strange comedy-drama film directed by Peter Greenaway in 1988, starring Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, and Bernard Hill. In Southwold, England, there live three generations of women, all named Cissie Colpitts (Plowright, Stevenson, and Richardson).
Sep 10, 2012 · Obsessed with obscure English folk games and father to corpse-collecting Smut, coroner Madgett becomes involved with three generations of women all named Cissie.
