Drowning by Numbers
Drowning by Numbers is a British-Dutch crime comedy-drama 1988 film directed by Peter Greenaway. It won the award for Best Artistic Contribution at the Cannes Film Festival of 1988.
Plot
The film opens with a little girl jumping rope and counting stars to "a hundred".
More details
| author | Peter Greenaway |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Suffolk |
| director | Peter Greenaway |
| editor | John Wilson |
| genre | comedy-drama crime |
| keywords | billy goats gruff coroner cricket daughter death game drown fairy tale folklore grandmother hangman hare and hounds jumping rope little girl married niece paper chase river sheep southwold southwold lighthouse tide |
| musicBy | Michael Nyman |
| producer | Denis Wigman Kees Kasander |
| publisher | Prestige |
| theme | avant-garde and experimental independent |