
Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is covered up. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly involved in their murders as well. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to one hundred.... (Full plot summary below)
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Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is covered up. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly involved in their murders as well. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to one hundred.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIts worth is drowned out by its obscurity and urge to make everything into an intellectual game. |
| User ReviewKevin LI really liked this one. Lots of over saturated colors and compulsive numerical skull-duggery. |
| User ReviewSimon CAn adult wonderland of a film, built around ascending numbers, that deals with sex, death, fate and apples. |
| User ReviewGaston SWonderfully complex, the plot is another game embedded in a number series. Baroque and twisted elegy, and again an index of life pretty much in the unique Gs style. |
| User ReviewIan LOne of Greenaway's most accessible films, due to the three central female characters. As with all of his work, beautifully structured and a delight for the senses. |
| User ReviewRalf IPeter Greenaway's best movie, beautifully structured with the usual sumptuous cinematography, themes of sex, food and decay and great Nyman score; what's not to like? |
| User ReviewDavid BClever, witty, great-looking, a real sense of development. My personal favourite of Greenaway's films. |
| User ReviewMarie Lthis is what should be taught in script class, bonkers |
| User ReviewRainer DSophisticated (as are all of Oeter Greenaway's films) and yet even more entertaining. |
| User ReviewHannele DGreenaway does it again. Three generations of women kill their husbands. You'd think at least the youngest would have had the sense not to get married. And that a kid would have the sense not to circumcise himself. Oh, well. |