Another typical Greenaway outing, in which plot and character take second place to those favorite thematic concerns of formal symmetry and physical decomposition.
Against a backdrop of the autumnal Suffolk seaside, three generations of women, each named Cissie Colpitts (60-year-old mother Joan Plowright, 34-year-old daughter Juliet Stevenson and 19-year-old granddaughter Joely Richardson), murder their unsatisfactory husbands by drowning--respectively, Jake
(Bryan Pringle), in a bathtub; Hardy (Trevor Cooper), while swimming in the sea; and Bellamy (David Morrissey), in a swimming pool. In return for promised sexual favors, which the women ultimately withhold, t...
Released:
1987
Rated:
R
Length:
118 mins