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3 de mai. de 2023 · Both Drowning by Numbers and The Draughtsman’s Contract were recently restored and rereleased. I see more people rediscovering The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover and A Zed & Two Noughts.
7 de jun. de 1991 · Michael Nyman. 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. The film opens with a little girl playing a counting game with the stars in the sky.
Drowning by Numbers is my favourite and has remained in my all-time Top 20 ever since. It is probably Greenaway's least bizarre and most accessible work and the one that strays furthest from being another moving baroque painting, but it is just as highly structured and densely infused with statistics-like enumerations (another common trait of Greenaway's movies).
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. The story is paced by the numbers one to 100, which ...
16 de jun. de 2023 · The formalism of Drowning by Numbers is announced right in the title, as it offers an overt explanation of the structure of the entire film. There’s a literal counting game going on throughout, with the numbers 1 through 100 hidden in plain sight in his various tableaus, worked into the sets, costumes, props, or other background details.
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. Hilary Mantel The Spectator. It never ...
23 de fev. de 2023 · Drowning By Numbers, Peter Greenaway's classic 1988 black comedy, is returning in 4K Ultra HD courtesy of Severin Films along with a new trailer.
