Conspiracy of women
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Conspiracy of women |
| Original title | Drowning by Numbers |
| Country of production |
Netherlands , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Greenaway |
| script | Peter Greenaway |
| production | Kees Kasander |
| music | Michael Nyman |
| camera | Sacha Vierny |
| cut | John Wilson |
| occupation | |
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Conspiracy of Women is a 1988 film directed by Peter Greenaway , who wrote and directed the film.
action
Three women named Cissie Colpitts - grandmother, mother and daughter - drown their husbands in quick succession and are covered by the local coroner Madgett, who each time rules out a murder in the hope of a love wage. Madgett's son Smut is now busy numbering and cataloging animal carcasses he discovers. He is always accompanied by his friend jumping rope, who lists the names of a hundred fixed stars while jumping .
Suspicious friends and relatives of the dead band together to prove their crimes to the women, but remain unsuccessful. The three women go out on a lake with Madgett to scatter the ashes of the deceased men. In the middle of the lake, the women pull a stopper so that the boat (number 100) in which the four are located begins to sink. Then the women leave the non-swimmer Madgett alone. Smut's girlfriend, jumping rope, is run over by a car, which hangs himself.
background
The film was shot in Suffolk . It was released in German cinemas on November 17, 1988.
Smut's suicide with his girlfriend's skipping rope is an allusion to Luis Buñuel's Viridiana .
" Drawing by Numbers " is the name of a game in which you have to fill in fields with numbers with colors and thus recreate a famous painting.
Reviews
Klaus Bort in the Metzler Filmlexikon said: “In Drowning by Numbers, Greenaway playfully takes up moments from his early non-narrative cinema. [...] With its subtle and black humor, the film reflects the relationship between fiction and reality, game and life, rule and powerlessness through rules. "
The lexicon of international films judged: “In grandiose color and light compositions as a sequence of macabre-surreal games of idiosyncratic logic, staged film that unleashes countless associations of ideas. Without committing to a tangible statement, the film sometimes gives the impression of being pretentious and only feigning depth. The macabre-fatalistic conclusion, which seems to call into question all values of human existence, calls for discussion and contradiction. "
The television magazine Prisma said that the “British filmmaker and artist Peter Greenaway [...] created an ironic comedy about mysterious number games, sex and death. Thanks to grandiose pictures in light and colors, this grotesque-surreal confusion is a real feast for the eyes. "
Awards
The film was shown at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1988 and received the award for the best individual artistic achievement. In 1989 he received the Audience Award at the Warsaw Film Week in Warsaw .
Web links
- Drowning in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Drowning at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations of Conspiracy of Women on imdb.com
- ↑ Women's Conspiracy premiere dates on imdb.com
- ^ Film references in Conspiracy of Women on imdb.com
- ^ A b Klaus Bort: Drowning By Numbers . In: Metzler Filmlexikon , edited by Michael Töteberg, 2nd, updated and expanded edition, Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2005.
- ↑ Conspiracy of Women. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Conspiracy of women on prisma-online.de
- ↑ Women's Conspiracy Awards on imdb.com