Drowning by Numbers

Drowning by Numbers

  • Director: Peter Greenaway
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, Netherlands
  • Language: English
  • Release date: June 1991
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Verschwörung der Frauen
  • Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 British-Dutch co-produced comedy film directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Joan Plowright , Juliet Stevenson , and Joely Richardson . The film tells the story of three generations of women who have their own unsatisfactory marriages, and they all caused their husbands to die.

    Details

    • Release date June 1991
    • Filming locations Suffolk, England, UK
    • Production companies Film Four International, Elsevier-Vendex Film Beheer, Allarts Production

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $424,773

    Gross worldwide

    $424,773

    Movie reviews

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    • By Jacklyn 2022-10-06 21:36:23

      Why do you like to watch?

      Peter Greenaway came into contact with him earlier, and "Forbidden Books by Pillow" disgusted me. Apart from the exquisite pictures, I don't know what else is worth enjoying? This is precisely the characteristic of Peter. He has a background in learning painting, and all of his works show the texture of oil paintings. In the film industry, he is an absolute heresy, nude, chaotic, and beautiful, almost his label.
      I don’t understand his movie. I don’t know what the director is trying to tell...

    • By Bailee 2022-10-06 20:25:23

      If you have a wife, you must learn to swim.


           This dish has been bought for a long time, but I have always had a deep respect for Greenaway. Facing his movie, it seems to be an evil god. Nausea is a must, and sacredness is also inevitable. 'S wife and her lover> It makes me strained and allergic to pork within a month. A few weeks ago, look, I saw my superficial eyelids wanting to end my life by myself. Nevertheless, I was still interested in Greenaway, risking a burst of eyeballs, and then watched this ...

    • By Alvah 2022-10-06 18:11:11

      After death: "Drown One by One"/"Zoo" ("One Z and Two O

      Avant-garde, beautiful, treacherous, and miscellaneous can be regarded as Peter Greenaway's movie labels, and zoo (1985) and Drowning in numbers (1988) are no exception. He studied painting in his early years, and his images benefited from the light and shadow of the Dutch School of Painting. In this sense, telling the plot or characters in the film is clumsy and risky, but this attempt is also worthwhile. The visual masters mixed up many conceptual topics such as gender, decay, power, rules,...

    • By Alexane 2022-10-06 16:26:38

      Drowning man

      This is a work with a less ritual sense of Greenaway, lacking "ZOO", "Chef, Thief, Wife and Her Lover" and the solemnity exuded by the fusion of mirror and music in "Magic Baby", The solemn sense of sacred rituals tends to be more life-oriented as a whole. But at the core, it is still the painful and happy Greenaway.

      The three generations of grandparents are named Xixi. On her birthday, when her grandmother saw her husband and lover playing in two dirty bathtubs, the grandmother...

    User comments

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    • By Jeanne 2023-09-27 23:17:17

      4- Continue the poetry of stylized...

    • By Destin 2023-09-02 02:35:09

      Before and after marriage, honey luck is dull and cold and hot, please remember to learn to swim before you experience...

    • By Jasen 2023-08-16 01:57:47

      Super avant-garde movie,...

    • By Glen 2023-07-26 00:19:56

      The three women killed their husbands and drowned in the...

    • By Jess 2023-07-09 01:44:40

      Zero after a...

    Movie plot

    In a coastal town in the United Kingdom, there are three women who are also named Hechy Kalpitz. Xixi (Joan Plowright), who was over sixty years old, found her husband Jack (Bryan Pringle) publicly meeting with other women at home on her birthday, so she drowned in the bathtub while Jack was drunk; 25-year-old Xixi ( Juliet Stevenson (played by Juliet Stevenson) and her husband Hardy (Trevor Cooper) lead a pampered life, but Hardy is...
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    Background creation

    This film introduces more than a dozen various games that British people love; they are run through by numbers, and these numbers appear in front of the eyes or fill people's eardrums all the time. The film shows three generations acting in unison against their tiresome marriage. The doctor as a gambler freed the three of them, but the doctor himself suffered the same fate as the three husbands. The director hinted: Everything in life...
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    Movie quotes

    • Cissie Colpitts 1: The flies are settling on him.

      Madgett: Well, shoo them off. Use a newspaper.

      Cissie Colpitts 1: Madgett, I'm in need of legal aid, not a flyswatter.

    • Cissie Colpitts 1: [looking at the sleeping body of her son-in-law] Do *all* fat men have little penises?

    • Cissie Colpitts 2: Madgett, we've been talking about you.

      Madgett: I know.

      Cissie Colpitts 1: Could you get it up three times n an afternoon, Madgett?

      Madgett: I'd like to try. Depends who's asking.