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Peter Greenaway
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Norfolk and Suffolk

Our Bradford-based VFI Scholar, A.O.Pugh, writes

I've only just watched The Falls, but I
noticed that Greenaway has included a lot of images from Norfolk and
Suffolk. Biograhy 2 (I think it's biograhy 2) is set in Southwold in
Suffolk, where Drowning By Numbers was set and is, I think, a personal
favourite of Greenaway. Biography 4 (?) shows a scene from Bungay, Suffolk
and makes a reference to it. I live in Bungay, and it would appear to be
actually taken in Bungay. Any questions - I'd be grateful to answer them.
It's also either this biography or the next one that features a field with
planes in it. Greenaway credits this place with a false name: it is
actually a pub just down the road from Bungay, in Flixton. The publican,
being interested in planes, has converted the beergarden into a tiny
aviation museum - it looks just as surreal in real life as it does in the
film. The shot has been taken from behind the garden, however. Several
biograhies on (I'm sorry, I didn't make a note of which), there is a scene
from Norwich, which is in Norfolk, my provincial city. Greenaway has, once
again, credited the street erroneously, naming it Canary Street presumably
for the purposes of the film. It is in fact a pub on Rose lane, but it may
be that Greenaway named it Canary Street in view of the fact that Norwich
City Football Club is known as 'the canaries'.
Biography 64 shows scenes from Diss railway station, which is in fact in
Norfolk, not Suffolk, as the narrator tells us. Diss is another small
town, just like Bungay, on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk.
It's my opinion ( and I'm sure I've heard this somewhere ) that Greenaway
is a great admirer of both Norfolk and Suffolk, particularly the wild
Suffolk coastline.

Probably not any help, any of it, but I thought I'd write anyway.