Drowning by Numbers

Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is obscured.

British director Peter Greenaway was very popular among European university students in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His painterly style paired with Michael Nyman's minimalistic neo-baroque music yielded some of the most unique and interesting art films of the period (The Draughtsman's Contract The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Prospero's Books etc.

I'm afraid this one is not for me. I enjoyed both 'The Cook....

Peter Greenaway is an auteur one either loves or hates because there isn't even enough room to ride that thin line in between, and well Greenaway couldn't care less. He is certainly one of the most polarizing, visually ambitious and endlessly entertaining directors to arise out of the mass extinction of the mid-century masters.

I like the idea of three generations of women doing away with their no good husbands, but this version is just a bit too left-field for my tastes. I think if it was taken and done with a serious perspective it could be quite an interesting watch.

English and dark humor - something you will get a lot of by watching the movie on hand here. This really will depend on your taste and how you like your movies delivered.

Bizzare and not funny. wash your hair instead.

Amusing, intriguing and always interesting exercise from Peter Greenaway. Helped enormously with musical score from Michael Nyman, this is a ravishing looking piece, well paced and full of surprises and a host of familiar yet seeming impossible games.

The notion is the same. All things move towards their end, as Nick Cave would romantically have it.