Drowning by Numbers
Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner is in love with all three women and helps to disguise the murders.
- Drowning by Numbers
- Netherlands, United Kingdom 1988
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- Czech
- 117 min.
- 18+
Three generations of the same family – a grandmother (Plowright), mother (Stevenson) and daughter (Richardson) – are all named Cissie Colpitts. Each woman, with her respective husband, finds herself following a cyclical story. With the ever-present themes of sex and death, and the motif of water providing a backdrop to the work, Greenaway gleefully pays homage to England’s great pastoral painters with ironic games and a number count providing the narrative’s unconventional structure.
Read moreCannes Film Festival
1988 – Peter Greenaway (Best Artistic Contribution)
Seattle International Film Festival
1991 – Peter Greenaway (Best Director)
Warsaw International Film Festival
1989 – Peter Greenaway (Audience Award)
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