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Drowning by Numbers

Wyliczanka · dir. Peter Greenaway
USA 1988, 118’

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, is drawn into a plot to disguise the murders. The story is paced by the numbers one to one-hundred, which appear sequentially through the film to…

Director:Peter Greenaway
Screenplay:Peter Greenaway
Music:Michael Nyman
Cinematography:Sacha Vierny
Editing:John Wilson
Cast:Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Jason Edwards, Bernard Hill