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By Marie L (80) on 15 Nov 2007

This is what should be taught in script class, bonkers…

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By David B (3,254) on 11 Nov 2007

Clever, witty, great-looking, a real sense of development. My personal favourite of Greenaway's films…

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By Ralf I (3) on 11 Nov 2007

Peter Greenaway's best movie, beautifully structured with the usual sumptuous cinematography, themes of sex, food and decay and great Nyman…

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By Levent K (12) on 10 Nov 2007

It proceeds slowly and is not as mannerist as Draughtman's, but definitely more real, definitely crudely female…

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By Tristan G (720) on 07 Nov 2007

Peter Greenaway combines numbers, death, and women together with themes of surrealism, circumcision, and fireworks…

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By Ian L (373) on 31 Oct 2007

One of Greenaway's most accessible films, due to the three central female characters…

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By Kimmo K (11) on 30 Oct 2007

I was susceptible young man when I saw this for the first time…

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By Gaston S (8) on 29 Oct 2007

Wonderfully complex, the plot is another game embedded in a number series…

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By Simon C (541) on 19 Oct 2007

An adult wonderland of a film, built around ascending numbers, that deals with sex, death, fate and apples…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 15 Oct 2007

Its worth is drowned out by its obscurity and urge to make everything into an intellectual game…

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By Anthony S (1,574) on 01 Oct 2007

Greenaway's obsession with game playing, story telling, and formalism almost get the best of this film…

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By Paulina S (14) on 30 Sep 2007

La vi hace aÃ±os me super encanto. quiero verla otra vez. genial…

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By Anders R (7) on 20 Sep 2007

Grotesque, hilarious and utterly strange movie. Bernard Hill is fenomenal as the sexually starved part time coroner…

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By Ola J (9) on 14 Sep 2007

This must be Greenaways best film, funny and disturbing at the samt time…

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By Alan H (304) on 04 Sep 2007

3 women all named cissie drown their husbands. Nothing quite like it. Great score by michael nyman…

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By Ben H (1,875) on 03 Sep 2007

A thing of great beauty, and full of riddles. It deliberately plays games and breaks conventions…

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By Jarl M (1) on 03 Sep 2007

As young this film was a revelation for me of what a film can be…

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By John L (999) on 25 Aug 2007

Greenaway's take on the eternal conflict between men and women, with copious nudity (a directorial trademark) and plenty of Easter eggs hidden…

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By Rani V (9) on 22 Aug 2007

Mr. greenaway integrates other activities for the viewers besides simply watching the film for plot and cinematography…

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By Maurizio C (10) on 21 Aug 2007

Intriguing, hunting, poetic, unusual and very very stylish…

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