![]() ![]() "A Zed & two Noughts" is not easy film to watch, its characters are not sympathetic, it lacks warmth and sentimentality but as always in Greenaway's films, it is a feast for eyes, ears, and for brain. Sacha Vierny, the director of photography that worked also for Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961), together with Peter Greenaway. Watch A Zed & Two Noughts Online You can now watch A Zed & Two Noughts online on the following streaming providers in the United States. "A Zed & two Noughts" refers openly and with great admiration to the paintings of Johannes Vermeer van Delft. A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985) The film is made entirely in the zoo in Rotterdam (Diergaarde Blijdorp) that was designed by the architect Sybold van Ravesteyn and it was opened in December 1940. Director: Peter Greenaway star 7.2 From 121 Ratings 7.2 76 Summary Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals. Greenaway considers that 90% of his films one way or another refers to paintings. Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. ![]() The movie is also a modern retelling of an ancient myth about Leda and Zeus who took the form of a swan and slept with Leda on the same night as her husband, King Tyndareus. The brothers, who are zoologists, become obsessed with the death and decay of animals. The two widowers, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba (Andrea Ferrol), loses her leg. Identical twins Oliver and Oswald Deuce lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. 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. David Attenborough, Joss Ackland, Frances Barber, Wolf Kahler. As in earlier "The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), Greenaway explores the relationship between the close relatives - the twin brothers are in the center of "A Zed & two Noughts". A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) Action, Comedy, Drama. "Dead Ringers" and "Mon oncle d'Amérique" (two beautiful weirdnesses themselves) also come to mind while watching Greenaway's elegant tale of decomposing which is also his meditations about life, death and grief. Categories: Ebay, film, posters (original) Tags: 1980s, 1985, A Zed & Two Noughts (1985). Some ideas and images Greenaway will use in the later "8 1/2 women" and "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover" - especially, the soundtrack. A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) 47×63 French poster. I am not sure what it is all about but I still enjoy the triumvirate Greenaway - Sasha Verny- Michael Nyman. I knew how strange and unusual Greenaway could be but Zed, I believe could take the cake :). This thirteen room single-column adventure contains about nine encounter areas on an alien spaceship. ![]()
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