Drowning by Numbers

Name: Drowning by Numbers
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 2023-02-02
Cast: Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill, Jason Edwards

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

Peter Greenaway

Netherlands, United Kingdom 1988

English

Czech

117 min.

18+

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This film is available until 14. 1. 2025 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.

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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.

Credits

Director: Peter Greenaway

Screenplay: Peter Greenaway

Cinematography: Sacha Vierny

Music: Michael Nyman

Sound: Chris Wyatt

Editing: John Wilson

Production Design: Ben van Os, Jan Roelfs

Producer: Kees Kasander, Denis Wigman

Costumes: Dien van Straalen

Cast: Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill, Jason Edwards, Bryan Pringle, Trevor Cooper, David Morrissey, John Rogan, Paul Mooney

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