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    Drowning By Numbers (1988)

    In one of writer/director Peter Greenaway’s darkest comedies, three generations of womenfolk, all named Cissie Colpitts, drown their menfolk with the acquiescence of the local coroner, Madgett (Bernard Hill).

    Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, and Joely Richardson are delightfully lethal as the scheming trio while Greenaway indulges his obsessions with word games, lists and the ache of mortality.

    drowningbynumbers3Michael Nyman’s score builds momentum, even though there isn’t any, and the whole is luminous and lurid in equal measure.

    Madgett
    Bernard Hill
    Cissie Colpitts 1
    Joan Plowright
    Cissie Colpitts 2
    Juliet Stevenson
    Cissie Colpitts 3
    Joely Richardson
    Smut
    Jason Edwards
    drowningbynumbers4Jake
    Bryan Pringle
    Hardy
    Trevor Cooper
    Bellamy
    David Morrissey
    Gregory
    John Rogan
    Teigan
    Paul Mooney
    Nancy
    Jane Gurnett
    Jonah Bognor
    Kenny Ireland

    Director
    Peter Greenaway

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