A Zed & Two Noughts
Director: Peter Greenaway Run Time: 115 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1985
Starring: Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon
A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is 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 (Ferréol), loses her leg. The two widowers, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald (the Deacons), 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. – Zeitgeist Films
“Like nothing you’ve ever seen before.” – Boston Herald
“Exquisitely directed and photographed…. Well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.” – Leonard Maltin, Cinemania