Country: UK, Netherlands
Year: 1988
Duration: 119'
Three women, all three called Cissie
Colpitts, drown their three husbands
and try to throw off track the investigations
carried out by the same coroner. A dark
tale full of picturesque elements, a taste of
the three actresses’ skills (Joan Plowright,
Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson). The
numbers from the title appear on the
screen in the most unexpected ways to
pace the narration. Greenaway at his best.
Biography
film director
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway (Newport, GB/UK, 1942)
FILMOGRAFIA
The Falls (1980), The Draughtsman’s Contract (I misteri del giardino di Compton House, 1982), A Zed & Two Noughts (Lo zoo di Venere, 1985), The Belly of an Architect (Il ventre dell’architetto, 1987), Drowning by Numbers (Giochi nell’acqua, 1988), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Il cuoco, il ladro, sua moglie e l’amante, 1989),
Prospero’s Books (L’ultima tempesta, 1991), The Baby of Mâcon (The Baby of Mâcon - Il
bambino di Mâcon, 1993), The Pillow Book (I racconti del cuscino, 1996), 8 1/2, Women
(8 donne e 1/2, 1999), The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (Le valigie di Tulse Luper - La storia di Moab, 2003), The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: from Sark to the Finish (2003), The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004), Nightwatching (2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay Peter Greenaway
fotografia/cinematography Sacha Vierny
montaggio/film editing John Wilson
scenografia/production design Ben Van Os, Jan Roelfs
costumi/costume design Dien Van Straalen
musica/music Michael Nyman
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Joan Plowright (Cissie Colpitts 1), Juliet Stevenson (Cissie Colpitts 2), Joely Richardson (Cissie Colpitts), Bernard Hill (Henry Madgett)
produttore/producer Kees Kasander
produzione/production Allarts
fotografia/cinematography Sacha Vierny
montaggio/film editing John Wilson
scenografia/production design Ben Van Os, Jan Roelfs
costumi/costume design Dien Van Straalen
musica/music Michael Nyman
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Joan Plowright (Cissie Colpitts 1), Juliet Stevenson (Cissie Colpitts 2), Joely Richardson (Cissie Colpitts), Bernard Hill (Henry Madgett)
produttore/producer Kees Kasander
produzione/production Allarts