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A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:14
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. The tale begins when a car wreck involving a rare swan kills the wife of a doctor (who has a twin brother, also... The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. The tale begins when a car wreck involving a rare swan kills the wife of a doctor (who has a twin brother, also a doctor). The brothers then form an unusual and strangely close relationship with the woman who was driving the car, now an amputee. Meanwhile, they organize elaborate studies on the decomposition of animals. It's all very beautiful to look at and makes a great companion piece to Cronenberg's 'Dead Ringers'. [More]
Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber
Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland
Director: Peter Greenaway
Director: Peter Greenaway
Composer: Michael Nyman
Reviews for A Zed and Two Noughts
liked this better the second time around, but it's still not one of my favorite Greenaways.
None of Greenaway's films take place in anything resembling naturalism or realism, and they don't feel modern. They're like archaic storybook adaptations of Jacobean plays illustrated by Vermeer.
Another exercise in cataloguing, another elaborate death ritual, and another story inhabited with fixation
As fascinating and exciting as the images are, however, the drama is ridiculous as all get out.
It’s frustratingly interesting for the director’s self-indulgences ...
Greenaway's eccentric exploration of where all life's absurd varieties must begin and end is, like a road accident, always fascinating, if not exactly pleasurable, to watch.
Fatally pretentious crap. (But it's fun to say if you're a Renaissance Faire warrior whose costume never comes off.)
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