Superb, must-see... and unavailable
Drowning by Numbers review
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4th January 2006
This movie is the reason I signed up for DVD rental. Sadly, despite being listed on this service, it is unavailable, with no date for when it will become available.
Drowning By Numbers is quite frankly the best arthouse film ever made, the story of five husband-killers, their oddball associates and eccentric lifestyle in the rural English coast.
The drownings form a mere back-story to a longer and far more complicated series of games and pastimes thought up by Smut, the perpetually occupied son of the local coroner. Anyone brought up in an isolated rural community who constructed their own games to pass their childhood time will find this eccentricity strangely familiar.
Unfortunately this DVD has been deleted for several years. I'd hoped that since it came up on a listing for this service, they would actually have an old copy available, but it would seem not. I can't help but feel somewhat cheated out of my money.
