Drowning By Numbers is an ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place in a lyrically beautiful English landscape of woods, fields, estuaries and beaches in late summer and early autumn. There are five main protagonists - three women with the same name, a coroner who is love with all of them, and the coroners son who acts as a messenger and go-between. The three women - all of whom have the same name - are independently minded and have a great sense of mutual camaraderie. They are all dissatisfied with their marriages, and in the end all three drown their husbands, looking to the coroner to free them of their responsibility for murder.
Film Crew
- : Peter Greenaway
- : Peter Greenaway
- : Gerrit Martijn
- : Michael Nyman
- : Chris Wyatt
- : Sacha Vierny
- : John Wilson
- : Kees Kasander
- : Jan Roelfs
- : Denis Wigman
- : Peter Brayham
- : Ben Van Os
- : Dien van Straalen
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- Couleur
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Three women - all of whom have the same name - become extremely dissatisfied with their marriages, and decide the only way out is to drown their husbands.-
The acting is uniformly excellent.
Variety -
Well it's Peter Greenaway innit. Beautiful, but a little confusing.
Empire Magazine -
Elegantly scored and luminously shot, it's a modernist black comedy filled with arcane, archaic and apocryphal lore, and hugely enjoyable.
GA, TimeOut London
