Historical drownings in the Seine are catalogued, dissected and elaborated, with multilayered visuals and 'documentary' asides.
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Title: Death in the Seine (1989– )
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Alan Franco | ... | Narrator (voice) |
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Jean-Michel Dagory | ... | Bouille |
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Jim van der Woude | ... | Daude |
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Hans Verbrugge | ... | Jacques Chevreuil |
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Denis Verkroese | ... | André Ribrot |
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Roos Peters | ... | Jeanne Geneviève Valiton |
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Arie Van Vliet | ... | Pierre François Denis |
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Michelle Guerts | ... | Louise Emilie Charlotte Harmand |
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Jan Remkes | ... | Pierre Jean Le Roy |
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Micke Mink | ... | Marie Topinard |
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Gerard van Lavieren | ... | Nicolas Julien Doguet |
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Lars Crama | ... | Guillaume Rene Guerin |
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Leonie Beverloo | ... | Monique Constance Manin |
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Winsred Zotsch | ... | Jean Pierre Pascal Dauzet |
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Adrian van der Elzen | ... | Jean Baptiste Langlasse |
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Historical drownings in the Seine are catalogued, dissected and elaborated, with multilayered visuals and 'documentary' asides.
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Director Peter Greenaway has stated that although he didn't set out to have the actors playing the corpses move about, he didn't mind when they did, because on one level the film is about people only pretending to be dead, and that the movements just helped reinforce that. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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7 April 1991 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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The remarkable Greenaway is most successful when his scope is constrained and most intriguing when he works in the large. This is a small work, and lovely.
A number of drowning victims are described from the coroner's notes and exquisitely photographed. If viewing nude corpses bothers you, this might not be your thing. But remembrances of these people are frangible, just as we will be remembered or not.
The period is right after the French Revolution where a new calendar was briefly used. As the calendar became obsolete, the time of their endlives and deaths can be said to not exist. This allowed Greenaway to bring their past lives back into `real' history.
The views of their bodies are so evocative that perhaps we give them a richer existence than they ever knew themselves.
As this is a video production, Greenaway can afford complex visual overlayering. Also, as this is contemporaneous with `Drowning by Numbers' one wonders about the linkages. Enriches both films.