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A Zed and Two Noughts

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A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)

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Reviews Counted:18

Fresh:14

Rotten:4

Average Rating:6.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. The tale begins when a car wreck involving a rare swan kills the wife of a doctor (who has a twin brother, also... The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. The tale begins when a car wreck involving a rare swan kills the wife of a doctor (who has a twin brother, also a doctor). The brothers then form an unusual and strangely close relationship with the woman who was driving the car, now an amputee. Meanwhile, they organize elaborate studies on the decomposition of animals. It's all very beautiful to look at and makes a great companion piece to Cronenberg's 'Dead Ringers'. [More]

Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber

Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland

Director: Peter Greenaway

Director: Peter Greenaway
Composer: Michael Nyman

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Nov 23, 1999

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Reviews for A Zed and Two Noughts

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03/26/09
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liked this better the second time around, but it's still not one of my favorite Greenaways.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
02/29/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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.

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01/22/08
Jeremiah Kipp
Jeremiah Kipp
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01/18/08
David Fear
David Fear
Time Out New York

Enjoyable as a work of perversion.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
11/08/07
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

An enjoyably decadent, ridiculously convoluted thingamajig.

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07/05/07
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

Greenaway when he was still hungry.

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03/13/06
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

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

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01/25/06
Shane Burridge
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No review available.

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07/16/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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As fascinating and exciting as the images are, however, the drama is ridiculous as all get out.

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11/06/04
Douglas Pratt
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08/30/04
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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It’s frustratingly interesting for the director’s self-indulgences ...

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02/21/04
Greg Muskewitz
Greg Muskewitz
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.

Full Review Source: Movie Gazette | comment Comment
02/13/04
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
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01/29/04
Spence D.
Spence D.
IGN Movies

Fatally pretentious crap. (But it's fun to say if you're a Renaissance Faire warrior whose costume never comes off.)

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01/26/04
Jonathan R. Perry
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

A great film which can be explored on multiple levels.

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08/22/03
John Esther
John Esther
Pasadena Weekly

Greenaway's most misogynistic film to date!

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07/25/03
David N. Butterworth
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06/19/03
Christopher Null
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