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A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)

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This twisted black comedy is obsessed in turn with swans, twins, and decay. Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol) is involved in a swan-related car accident near the zoo. The accident kills two other women, the wives of two twin zoologists, Oliver and Oswald Deuce (Brian and Eric Deacon). Alba is lucky enough to escape with one leg. Eventually her doctor also removes the other "because it was dangerous for the spine." Meanwhile, the Deuce brothers, as a result of losing their wives, have become

R, 1 hr. 55 min.

Drama, Comedy, Special Interest

Nov 23, 1999

Wellspring Media Inc.

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An enjoyably decadent, ridiculously convoluted thingamajig.

July 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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Despite overkill in the ideas department, which many will find too pretentious for comfort or coherence, visually, Zed is a masterpiece.

September 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

liked this better the second time around, but it's still not one of my favorite Greenaways.

February 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

None of Greenaway's films take place in anything resembling naturalism or realism, and they don't feel modern. They're like archaic storybook adaptations of Jacobean plays illustrated by Vermeer.

January 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Greenaway creates his thesis over the decaying corpses of animals, which doesn't inspire a middle-of-the-road kind of viewer response.

January 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Enjoyable as a work of perversion.

November 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Greenaway when he was still hungry.

March 13, 2006 Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Another exercise in cataloguing, another elaborate death ritual, and another story inhabited with fixation

January 25, 2006 Full Review | Comment
rec.arts.movies.reviews

As fascinating and exciting as the images are, however, the drama is ridiculous as all get out.

November 6, 2004 Comment

It's frustratingly interesting for the director's self-indulgences ...

February 21, 2004 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Greenaway's eccentric exploration of where all life's absurd varieties must begin and end is, like a road accident, always fascinating, if not exactly pleasurable, to watch.

February 13, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Gazette | Comment
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Audience Reviews for A Zed and Two Noughts

A delightfully perverse film. I'm sure that I will never see a better movie fixated on amputation and rotting carrion.As with most Peter Greenaway films, the stylized cinematography, lighting and sets are a marvel. Greenaway is more like a Renaissance painter than a director, and his longtime collaborator Michael Nyman

October 22, 2009
Eric Broome

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Written and directed by Peter Greenaway, "A Zed and Two Noughts" is about two zoologist brothers, Oswald(Brian Deacon) and Oliver(Eric Deacon) Deuce, who both lose their wives in a tragic freak auto accident.(A swan was somehow involved.) In that same moment, they gain a friend in Alba Bewick(Andrea Ferreol, who seems

September 5, 2008
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Foreign Titles

  • Ein Z und zwei Nullen (DE)
  • Zoo (ES)
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