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Peter Greenaway's Drowning By Numbers is one of my favourite films; it's visually sumptuous and I seem to spot another detail or three every time I rewatch it. For some reason, we often play the soundtrack in the car when on weekend trips.
On watching the early scene in which the eldest and second eldest and second eldest Cissie Colpittses (they have the same name) take Nancy—drunk, naked and unconscious—home in a wheelbarrow, I was suddenly struck that this brief tableau reminded me of a famous painting of Jesus: of his body being moved after death, but I can't recall the name of the painter ot the artist. I'm sure it's something famous. The position of Nancy's arm and the way the figures on both sides are holding her seem awfully familiar. That 'limp arm' is definitely an artistic trope.
Can anybody suggest a candidate?
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On watching the early scene in which the eldest and second eldest and second eldest Cissie Colpittses (they have the same name) take Nancy—drunk, naked and unconscious—home in a wheelbarrow, I was suddenly struck that this brief tableau reminded me of a famous painting of Jesus: of his body being moved after death, but I can't recall the name of the painter ot the artist. I'm sure it's something famous. The position of Nancy's arm and the way the figures on both sides are holding her seem awfully familiar. That 'limp arm' is definitely an artistic trope.
Can anybody suggest a candidate?
Image Contains Incidental Nudity:
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