Triple Assassinat dans le Suffolk

Original title: Drowning by Numbers

1988
R
1h 58m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

11K

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Joely Richardson in Triple Assassinat dans le Suffolk (1988)

Three generations of women all share the same problem: marriage woes, and they want to put an end to it.

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Dark Comedy Satire Comedy Drama

Three generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it.Three generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it.Three generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

11K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination total

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Trivia
According to Writer and Director Peter Greenaway, there are one hundred things beginning with the letter "s" in Smut's (Jason Edwards') room and one hundred things beginning with the letter "m" in Madgett's (Bernard Hill's) room.

Quotes
Smut: The object of this game is to dare to fall with a noose around your neck from a place sufficiently high enough off the ground, such that the fall will hang you. The object of the game is to punish those who have caused great unhappiness by their selfish actions. This is the best game of all, because the winner is also the loser, and the judge's decision is always final.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: One Good Cop/FX2/Switch/Spartacus/Drowning by Numbers (1991)

Soundtracks
2nd Movement of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra K354
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (as Mozart)
Performed by Alexander Balanescu (violin) and Jonathan Carney (viola)

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Featured review

8/10

The men play one type of game, the women another

Life's a game, death's a game. This playful little movie is all about games. If you're not a gaming-type person, you might not find this, umm, diverting.

The thoroughly surreal and tongue-in-cheek tone of the movie keeps us from taking it very seriously...all of which is for the best, since that way we don't confuse the plot with serious drama; the games the women play tend toward the homicidal....

Wittgenstein famously pointed out that there are all manner of games in the world--there's no tight set of identifying characteristics; games all have, at most, a "family resemblance". Greenaway has here collected numerous far-flung relatives in this odd family. You'll no doubt appreciate some of them more than others, Well, we all inevitably have favorites.

DbN and Prospero's Books (two very different movies!) are my favorite Greenaway films.