High resolution official movie posters for drowning by numbers 1991 directed by peter greenaway. Along the way, greenaway often stops to contemplate his obsessions with literature, astronomy, and numbers. A great many things are dying violently all the time. The drowning 2017 financial information the numbers. Oct 12, 2015 it is here, however, where drowning by numbers breaks away, loosening itself off the cart of greenaways filmography and into the soil of something other. Obsessed with obscure english folk games and father to corpsecollecting smut, coroner madgett becomes involved with three generations of.
The attractive but full frame and optically censored. With bernard hill, joan plowright, juliet stevenson, joely richardson. It is impossible to follow her entire litany, but im. Drowning by numbers full movie watch online, stream or. Drowning by numbers 1988 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Sonically this may be his richest film as well thanks to michael nymans astonishing score, partially derived from mozart and filled with moments of musical brilliance. May 10, 2017 based on pat barkers dark novel border crossing, bette gordons ambitious psychological thriller the drowning opens with an intentionally truncated ergo enigmatic scene in which psychiatrist tom seymour josh charles, on a romantic seaside walk with his wife lauren julia stiles, saves a young man, danny miller, from drowning himself in a river. Rentbuy movie drowning by numbers dvd now family video. It didnt capture the mood of the film or properly showcase the great soundtrack. Le film drowning by numbers 1988 vostfr admin 20170403t22.
Death pops up throughout the film but, essentially, it is marked with a ritual within the landscape. It won the award for best artistic contribution at the cannes film festival of. I wasnt particularly fond of the original trailer made for this film. Either you really like this film or you dont like it at all. Since 1999, an average of more than 815 children ages 14 and under have died as a result of unintentional drowning each year. Most video editions of drowning by numbers have been quite a mess. Three generations of women all share the same problem. Dec 12, 20 a very midsummery film, drowning by numbers is scored by greenaways regular composing collaborator michael nyman and shoots suffolk beautifully. The film is full of small details some so obscure they are likely to please no one but peter greenaway or those willing to watch his behind the scenes blowby blow. Tom hardy is capone in first trailer for the josh trank film. Drowning by numbers was released in europe in 1988, but didnt find its way to american. The object of this game is to dare to fall with a noose around your neck from a place sufficiently high enough off the ground, such that the fall will hang you. Three women a mother, a daughter, and a niece, all named cissie colpitts are dissatisfied with their husbands and arrange for them to drown. Drowning by numbers is a 1988 britishdutch film directed by peter greenaway.
Drowning by numbers was released in europe in 1988, but didnt find its way to american screens until 1991, following the success of greenaways the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover. Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injuryrelated death among children ages 14 and under. Three generations of women, all with the same name, all decide to drown their deceitful, philandering husbands in this twisty and artistic film. Its sometimes hard to scorerate greenaway, as pieces of art they are sublime and this is no exception but as films it is often much harder to judge. Add a physical copy of drowning by numbers from family. Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, tv and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. Drowning by numbers 1988, directed by peter greenaway. Film 88 location report drowning by numbers duration. An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. The film opens with a young girl in a large, starspangled dress counting out 100 different stars.
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. Through the course of the film each of the numbers 1 to 100 appear, the large majority in sequence, often seen in the background, sometimes spoken by the characters. Apr 03, 2017 le film drowning by numbers 1988 vostfr admin 20170403t22. The object of the game is to punish those who have caused great unhappiness by their selfish actions. Where zed contemplated the process of entropy and slow decay, drowning interests itself primarily in sudden, violent death. Drowning by numbers is a surreal, satirical descent to the dark side of english gamesmanship.
Peter greenaway wrote and directed this typically surreal and iconoclastic black comedy. Peter greenaways film drowning by numbers certainly has an interesting and unique visual style and some very strong performances. Its that kind of enjoyable idiosyncracy that only someone like greenaway could muster, but the mathematical precision in drowning by numbers certainly leads to a slower narrative drive not that thats a necessity for film and a weakened emotional core. However, in the final analysis i didnt really care much about the story on screen. A wonderful treasure of a film well worth exploring. Drowning by numbers has always been one of my favorite greenaway films. As the murderous women rope the coroner into their homicidal plot, the film slowly begins to count upwards as numbers from one to 100 appear on the screen. I became a plausible while watching the drowning as soon as tom agreed to take dannys case. Drowning by numbers 1988 peter greenaway dvd for sale. Here is a movie so personal and quirky that perhaps you will enjoy it. Drowning by numbers 1991 cissie colpitts joan plowright drowns her cheating husband and in the ensuing coverup enlists the help of lonely coroner henry madgett bernard hill, an old friend. Three related women, all named cissie colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copycat drownings.
By this point, the incident from the film s title has already occurred. These drownings occur in pools, spas, open bodies of water and in the home. But as what greenaway has once said, he is drawn towards a form of cinema that is truly nonnarrative, and here in drowning by numbers, a truly challenging film that plays a macabre numbers game. But drowning by numbers is still definitely a midperiod greenaway film, firmly oriented around the polestars of sex, death, treachery and cosmic randomness. Le film drowning by numbers 1988 vostfr film complet. Death and landscape in drowning by numbers 1988 peter. Peter greenaway presents this commentary in one hundred parts on drowning by numbers 1987, discussing and analyzing many of the film s more intriguing features.
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