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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Greenaway’s earlier puzzle-box shares the numbered-film’s rigorous visual design, ceremonial gamesmanship, mordant humour, and a murder plot filtered through slyly artificial rules.
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Why this pick
Its obsessive patterns, symmetrical compositions, deadpan intellectual play, and macabre comedy closely match the controlled, luxuriantly constructed world of Drowning by Numbers.
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Why this pick
For the same formal elegance and ironic fatalism, this turns architecture, appetite, and professional obsession into a deliberately composed visual game.
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Why this pick
Buñuel similarly traps polished social behaviour inside an absurd, increasingly cruel ritual, balancing surreal comedy with a coolly observed anatomy of complicity.
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Why this pick
A droll, elegant study of murder fantasies and self-serving storytelling, with the same taste for macabre humour and playful distance from its characters’ crimes.
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01 / THE STORY
The film's plot centres on three married women — a grandmother, her daughter, and her niece — each named Cissie Colpitts. As the story progresses, each woman successively drowns her husband. The three Cissie Colpittses are played by Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson and Joely Richardson, while Bernard Hill plays the coroner, Madgett, who is cajoled into covering up the three crimes.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Cissie Colpitts 2
Smut
Nancy
Jonah Bognor
Mrs. Hardy
Marina Bellamy
Cissie Colpitts 1
Bellamy
