Three women named Cissie, three identically murdered husbands, a games-playing coroner who unsuccessfully woos each widow in turn (aged roughly from sixty down to twenty), a young boy who counts dead bodies of all species and sets off fireworks at their places of death, a hoop-skirted jump-roper who counts the stars -- all united within that measureless domain, Peter Greenaway's brain. The images by Sacha Vierny are so brilliantly lit and colored that you are almost able to abide the brain teasings. Or ignore them. Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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