A Zed & Two Noughts

A Zed & Two Noughts

1985 · 116 min · EN · NR · 7.0 (185 votes)
Dir. Peter Greenaway · Starring Frances Barber, Joss Ackland, Brian Deacon, Geoffrey Palmer, Eric Deacon, Andréa Ferréol · Music Michael Nyman
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Identical twin zoologists lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. They become obsessed with the death and decay of animals, and develop a strange and unusual relationship with the driver of the car, a woman who is now an amputee.

VIBE

A visually arresting, intellectually dense exploration of life, death, and decay. It’s a peculiar, often unsettling, yet strangely beautiful meditation on existence, best suited for patient viewers seeking a profound, if peculiar, cinematic experience.

melancholicabsurdistphilosophicaldarkly comicslow-burnPeter Greenawayarthousebaroqueintellectualmortalitydecaygriefthe nature of life
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