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A zed & two noughts / a film by Peter Greenaway.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biodegradation--Drama.
- Biodegradation.
- Twins--Drama.
- Twins.
- Wives.
- Death.
- Wives--Death--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Dark comedy films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (117 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Zoo : a zed and 2 noughts
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Zeitgeist, 1985.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- '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. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba (Andrea Ferreol), loses her leg. 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. The plot thickens when a mad surgeon schemes to use Alba as a subject in his experiments with animal symmetry and Vermeer homage.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed February 01, 2016).
- Other Format:
- Original version:
- OCLC:
- 945370326
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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