Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals. With Andra Ferrol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber.
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Full of surprises and magnificent conundrums, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is a perversely comic and teasing treat for the mind and senses. A Zed & Two Noughts: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With this follow-up to his acclaimed THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT, Greenaway intensifies his already striking visual style by collaborating with legendary French cinematographer Sacha Vierny to create a masterpiece of motivated light. The plot thickens when a mad surgeon schemes to use Alba as a subject in his experiments with animal symmetry and Vermeer homage. ZOO matches 2001‘s fascination with evolution, circles and myth. Cinematographer Sacha Vierny is a Greenaway mainstay, as wasat least until 1990’s PROSPERO’S BOOKScomposer Michael Nyman (which explains in part why Greenaway’s post 1990 films tend to be markedly less. The two widowers, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald (Eric and Brian Deacon, in roles originally offered to the Quay Brothers), fixate on their wives’ bodies, and slowly become obsessed with evolution and decomposition-even going as far as to meticulously craft exquisitely morbid time-lapsed films of decaying creatures. In A Zed and Two Noughts, aka ZOO, Peter Greenaway’s daring art house venture, the circle as symbol already appears in the title, where our attention is drawn to the blue letters, or numbers, of ZOO, which a few scenes on turns out to be a giant neon sign. 1985’s A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is probably Greenaway’s most potent exploration yet of his favorite themes: sex, death and decay.
In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba (Andrea Ferréol), loses her leg. It's pretentious, humorless and, worst of all, more boring than a retrospective devoted to television weather forecasts delivered over a 30-year. “Two legs look so good together, don’t you think?” A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. ''A Zed and Two Noughts'' isn't really absurdist.
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