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A Zed & Two Noughts

starring: Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland
directed by: Peter Greenaway

: A Zed & Two Noughts
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781572527591
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1572527595
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: December 28, 1999
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 45872
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: May 25, 1990



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In Peter Greenaway's 8-1/2 Women (1999), a woman's death propels a bereaved widower and his son into carnal questing, via a harem of idiosyncratic ladies. Similarly, 1985's A Zed and Two Noughts follows the Deuce brothers, zoologists and former Siamese twins, who lose their wives in a bizarre collision--a great swan crashes into a car driven down Swann's Way by one Alba Bewick (translates as 'white swan'). The brothers become obsessed with photographing and measuring decay ('by degrees of grief'), from Apple to Zebra, and equally obsessed with voluptuous Alba, who, having lost one leg in the wreck, later has the other removed... perhaps for the sake of symmetry. Greenaway's funny, gruesome, gorgeous 'zoo' also features hooker Venus di Milo, arbiter of the monetary value of everything; an amputation-happy surgeon who'd like to make Alba fit into a Vermeer painting; a sinister Phantom of the Zoo who offs black-and-white animals; and other assorted, often twinned, exotics.

Sacha Vierny, who shot Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad and Buñuel's Belle de Jour, visualizes Zed in richly erotic detail, every frame a feast for the eyes. Evoking melancholy pavane or stately funeral march, Michael Nyman's music marks the inexorable progression of a fever dream celebrating the power of artifice and nature. Trained as a painter, educated in linguistics and philosophy, Greenaway deftly weaves an exquisite pattern of puns, colors, images, words, ideas, and music into a cinematic meditation on life, death, and sex. Weird to the max, mesmerizing, and some kind of masterpiece. --Kathleen Murphy



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Odd, erratic, erotic...a black comedy which features stop motion decay
How does one define oddness? I'd suggest by starting with two words: Peter Greenaway. You can also ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A Beautiful REGION 1 Edition
Amazon's listing is totally incorrect! This is the AMERICAN REGION 1 edition!!!

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Gorgeously filmed and elaborately constructed conceptual tour-de-force
I am very excited that Zeitgeist is putting out this new dvd transfer of this exceptional film. This ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Elegant Tale of Decomposing

I knew how strange and unusual Greenaway could be but Zed, I believe could take the cake :). I ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - this movie was a traffic accident, your disgusted but
you have to look at the blood and carnage. I think this would have been a little clearer if it was made ... Read More

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