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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".
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.
Drowning by Numbers | Rotten Tomatoes. R Released Apr 26, 1991 1h 59m Comedy. List. Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright) drowns her cheating husband and in the ensuing...
Jun 7, 1991 · The characters in “Drowning by Numbers” are all completely credible people, who speak in ordinary English and inhabit a real landscape (except for the numbers), and behave in ways that would not shock the reader of a mystery novel.
With its symbolic feminist message set in a modern dank fairy tale, Drowning by Numbers is simply as thought-provoking as it's weird and dark. Drowning by Numbers chronicles how the murder of one man leads to a sinister chain reaction in a visually stunning yet otherwise unconventional small town.
Three generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it. Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of a daughter and a niece who all have the same name, Cissie Colpitts, drowns her husband.
Dame Joan Plowright, four-time BAFTA Award nominee Juliet Stevenson and two-time Golden Globe nominee Joely Richardson star as three generations of women who murder their husbands in an unsettling salvo of sumptuous visuals, macabre capers and numerical mischief.
